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Pray NHS staff don't 'lose heart', charity says

by Eno Adeogun

The services head Simon Stevens has promised NHS England will work on improving cancer care and mental health provision.

Steve Fouch from the Christian Medical Fellowship told Premier why the government's recent announcement of an extra £20bn a year isn't enough to save the NHS.

 

"The money that's being offered ifs going to help maintain current services - there's enough to do that.

"But we know that the NHS is seriously overstretched in many areas and if you're trying to access child and adolescent mental health services at the moment it's extremely sparsely resourced."

Stevens has set out what he thinks will need to be the service's priorities - following new funding commitments from the government.

He said despite plans for some unnecessary procedures to be cut - he expects the total number of treatments to increase.

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Fouch told Premier that it's important to remember NHS staff in our prayers.

Speaking during Premier's News Hour, he explained: The good thing to pray for those people is that they do not lose heart and remain committed to their values and those ideals because that is what makes the NHS work - it is the people with that heart and that vision.

"And I think that it's very close to the heart and the vision of the Church of reaching out in kindness and compassion and love. "

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