Diane Abbott MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Health, responding to the revelation that the NHS Nursing Shortage could continue beyond 2020, said:

“These revelations are an outrage. The Tory Government’s failure to deal with the nursing shortage in our NHS is putting patients at risk.

“We have an ageing population and a health and social care sector that’s been decimated by cuts. By any measure, the Tory’s approach is a false economy.”