Interview with Dr. John Puntis, co-chair of Keep Our NHS Public

Published: March 5, 2021

Cited by: Urdu Point, Urdu Point

NHS Advocacy Group Slams UK Government’s Proposed 1% Pay Rise for Health Staff

MOSCOW, March 5 (Sputnik), Jonathan Rowson – The UK government’s proposal to offer National Health Service (NHS) workers a below-inflation pay rise of one percent in light of their efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic is “absurd,” John Puntis, the co-chair of advocacy group Keep Our NHS Public, told Sputnik in an interview on Friday.

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UK Finance Minister’s Spring Budget Leaves NHS Sidelined – Advocacy Group Co-Chair

MOSCOW, March 5 (Sputnik), Jonathan Rowson – The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has been sidelined by finance minister Rishi Sunak, whose “whatever it takes” spring budget failed to provide the investment needed to improve health and social care services, John Puntis, the co-chair of the Keep Our NHS Public advocacy group, told Sputnik in an interview.

“So it’s pretty pitiful actually, and somehow the NHS and social care have been left out of the big picture when you would have thought they would have been top of the list in many ways given what’s been going on over the past year,” the Keep Our NHS Public co-chair remarked.