The new health secretary is inheriting a mammoth to-do list. In addition to navigating the vaccination programme, they will take part in monitoring the travel ban list and how to find relief for an exhausted and overstretched NHS.
NHS staff are still fighting for a further pay rise and due to coronavirus restrictions, over 5 million people are on waiting lists for treatment.
Sky’s Ivor Bennett has been told it could take years to provide help for the people left behind.
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