According to Streeting at lunchtime that private providers have to source the resources needed but they can't reuse NHS staff and that's stipulated in the contracts.
When pushed on whether that means more foreign staff he said that's up to them and they could do that.
The implication is that foreign is wrong, but you can't train staff overnight.
There was also a lot on private providers sharing their training facilities with the NHS.
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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Hmmm..... tif they do go down the migrant health service staff route (doubling down on what the UK is already doing), it might alleviate an immediate crisis, but unless the UK also expands quickly training provision (and support for students), all that will happen is we will (once again) export a crisis to the developing world (this time to their domestic health services from whom we are stealing staff)!
(see earlier post)
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