Sienna's Story

Meet Sienna, 34, from Cheltenham in the South West, whose path into NHS healthcare has been blocked by central government choices. Despite strong demand for healthcare workers and people ready to train, HM Treasury and Health Education England have constrained workforce planning budgets, treating public investment as a cost to minimise rather than the means to get trained staff onto wards that desperately need them. Sienna's story reveals how Westminster's spending caps create artificial shortages in a sector where both training capacity and willing workers exist. This episode examines the political choices behind healthcare staffing crises and what happens when government that issues the pound acts as though it could run out of pounds. Blocked Britain is produced independently and receives no government funding.