Sir Keir Starmer will unveil the plans on Thursday as part of the Government’s 10-year Health Plan.
This, he said, would end “the ridiculous situation where thousands of students wait months after qualifying to get on the wards”.
Labour’s 10-year Health Plan, which has been months in the making, will set out wide-ranging reforms across the NHS that ministers hope will cut waiting times in hospitals and allow more patients to be seen in their local community.
Streeting said the Government would work with employers and unions to ensure staff have access to nutritious food and drink, and are better protected from violence, racism and sexual harassment.
In addition, from next year student nurses will be paid their expenses faster, he said, so they will not have to wait months to get reimbursed for things like bus fares.
Labour has already raised the starting salaries for nurses to over £30,000.
Questions over delivering the plan
square POLITICS Streeting: Nurses gave me strength when I had cancer, now it's time I helped them
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There are also likely to be questions over how quickly the improved conditions for nurses can be delivered to the front line.
In his article for The i Paper Streeting, who was treated for kidney cancer four years ago, wrote: “I know the nurses by my side during my own cancer journey didn’t just help me get better, they brought me emotional strength and comfort.
In May 2021, Streeting revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer, saying it had come as an “enormous shock”. But, because it had been found early, his prognosis was good, even though he needed surgery to remove one of his kidneys. On 27 July, 2021, he announced he had been declared cancer-free.
Wes Streeting meeting student midwives and nurses at the University of Chester in 2022 (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty)Warning from union chief
Ranger also warned that measures in the Health Plan to tie Government investment to the performance of NHS trusts risked creating perverse incentives.
“We expect to be valued to be completely understood and invested in.”
Ranger highlighted recent polling which showed that 75 per cent of the public believed nurses should be paid more, while 66 per cent said the Government did not value nursing enough.
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