Teams of doctors are to be drafted into Bolton as part of a nationwide drive to get people “back to work.” This comes after the borough was identified as one of several areas around the country, including Newcastle and Blackpool, where clinicians will be sent. They will be sent to areas such as Bolton as part of the government’s £240M “Get Britain Working” package, which aims to bring down on long term sick and back into work.
Bolton West MP Phil Brickell said: “I welcome the move to deploy more clinicians to Bolton to clear the backlog. “This Labour government is determined to get people who can work back into work. The doctors could also help to reduce pressures on the NHS (Image: Newsquest) “I speak to many people at my advice surgeries want to get back to work but are unable to do so because they are waiting for what should be routine operations.
“This is damaging for the individual but also damaging for the economy. “The bricklayer who wants to work but needs a knee operation should not have to wait months, sometimes years, to get it on the NHS. “This policy shows that the Labour government is tackling issues head on.
” Earlier this autumn, Bolton Council released its most recent public health report which found that just under a third of the borough’s adults were “economically inactive.” This meant that around 30 per cent of people between the ages of 16 and 64 were neither in work nor looking for work. Of those 30 per cent of people, aroun.