Croydon Hospital: Patient tells PM to pay NHS staff more

Croydon Hospital: Patient tells PM to pay NHS staff more Rishi Sunak has been told he needed to "try harder" over plans to give pay rises to hospital staff.

Visiting Croydon University Hospital, the prime minister spoke to in-patients, including Catherine Poole, aged 77.

After telling him he needed to pay medical staff more, she rejected his answer over his efforts, and told him he was "not trying". BBC News

See also:

• 'I wouldn't bring a member of my family to this hospital,' says medic BBC News
• Hospital patient challenges Rishi Sunak over nurses’ pay The Guardian
• NHS staff ‘forced to choose between rent and childcare’ as pay fails to meet soaring cost of living The Independent