Fix the workforce, fix the NHS?
28th September 2026
08:45 – 09:45
Room 4A, Liverpool Experience Campus (formerly ACC)
The NHS is facing a chronic staffing shortage with over 100,000 unfilled vacancies. But will fixing this make all it’s other problems – inadequate funding, rising demand, record waiting lists – disappear? Join the Association of Anaesthetists, Nuffield Trust and others to discuss this question – and find out if anyone has the answer!
Partners
Speakers
Adam Payne (Chair)
Editor, PoliticsHome
Dr Peter Prinsley MP
Member, Healthcare Workers APPG
MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
Dr Simon Opher MP MBE
Chair, Health APPG
MP for Stroud
Dr Tim Meek
President, Association of Anaesthetists
Sally Gainsbury
Senior Policy Analyst, Nuffield Trust
Tom Dolphin
Council Chair, BMA
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