{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5dde704326b06ba47dc0ce6c/666af386899a1b0012d47f7b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Wes Streeting on what Labour would do for nurses ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5dde704326b06ba47dc0ce6c/1718284732960-248c47713f5134f81bdb3685af838fd1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Nursing and other staff cannot continue to be ‘emotionally blackmailed’ into keeping the NHS going, the Nursing Standard podcast hears.</p><p><br></p><p>In an interview on the latest episode, shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting speaks about how NHS staff goodwill is now exhausted.</p><p><br></p><p>Mr Streeting tells senior news reporter Alison Stacey that action on pay and working conditions must happen to restore professional pride in nursing.</p><p><br></p><p>He also talks about his own experience of receiving treatment for kidney cancer, saying the care he received was fantastic, as were NHS staff, but there were too few of them.</p><p><br></p><p>The episode is an extract of a longer interview with Nursing Standard ahead of the UK going to the polls in the general election on 4 July.</p><p><br></p><p>For more episodes of the Nursing Standard podcast, visit rcni.com/podcast</p>","author_name":"Nursing Standard"}