Wes Streeting squirms when asked if scrapping NHS England means job lossesLBC
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00:00Some of them concluded on the numbers they're being given that they're going to have to get
00:03rid of frontline staff, that doctors and nurses are going to have to be shed quite quickly because
00:09of the budget. Can you look me in the eye or look our listeners in the eye as it were and tell them
00:13that isn't true? Well there'll definitely be some changes because I mean today for example...
00:18Sorry, losses of doctors and nurses. Firstly we should not be losing frontline staff and services
00:24because we have got I think a bloated bureaucracy and layers and layers of bureaucracy. Listen we
00:34both know that I'm not talking about bureaucracy, I'm not talking about the office jobs, I'm asking
00:39you to say whether or not you think doctors and nurses will have to lose their jobs because of
00:44what's happening because of the budget. I can't say there'll be no changes to services but for
00:49example we've put now almost a thousand more GPs onto the frontline since we came in. You're the
00:57most straight-talking member of this government. Can you just say to me
01:02some doctors and nurses sadly are going to lose their jobs?