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HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt used his announcement of a crackdown on rip-off NHS staffing agencies to try to silence criticism of poor health funding yesterday.
Mr Hunt won praise when he said on Monday that he would cap NHS spending on agency staff.
But he rained on his own parade yesterday, saying that the Tories had pledged an extra £8 billion for the NHS and that the “time for debating whether or not it is enough is over.”
British Medical Association council chairman Mark Porter countered that having to use agency staff was a “sign of stress on the system and the result of poor workforce planning by government.”
