Medical workers treat patients in the Covid-19 ward at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare system campus and medical center in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on January 11, 2022. Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images/File

Hundreds of current and former VA doctors, nurses and other caregivers have issued a warning to the Department of Veterans Affairs about the negative impacts of the agency’s recent staffing cuts and other policy changes.

In a mass letter sent Wednesday to VA Secretary Doug Collins, the agency’s inspector general and congressional leaders, obtained by CNN, the group warns that workforce reductions and moves to outsource care to private sector doctors and healthcare facilities will harm veterans.

“We write to raise urgent concerns about proposed policie

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