One in 11 posts unfilled in the NHS in England
Full story at The Guardian 21 February 2018 One in 11 posts in NHS England are currently unfilled, equivalent to almost 100,000 … Read more
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One in ten nurses quit NHS England every year.
Full story at The Guardian 17 January 2018 One in 10 nurses are leaving the NHS in England each year, … Read more
Nurses and GPs to be ‘first responders’ to emergency calls as NHS winter crisis deepens
Full story in The Independent, 30 December 2017 Nurses and GPs are to be sent to answer 999 calls ahead of ambulance crews … Read more
Row over Hunt’s plans to change NHS pay
Full story in The Guardian, 28 November 2017 The government has triggered a row with NHS staff by unveiling plans to overhaul … Read more
NHS England workforce planning ‘not fit for purpose’, says report
NHS England’s workforce planning is “not fit for purpose”, according to a report that found a high turnover of staff was hurting … Read more
‘Enough is enough’: nurses protest against pay cap outside Westminster
Nurses have expressed their anger over the public sector pay cap in a protest outside parliament, warning the government they … Read more
NHS ‘spends £21m on management consultancy advice’ while cutting nurses
Health and social care services across England have paid £21m to management consultant firms to advise on radical cost-cutting plans, an … Read more
Nursing shortages fuelling delayed discharge from hospital
There is no doubt that delays in arranging follow-on social care are causing more older people to be stranded in … Read more
What is being done to tackle the NHS workforce crisis?
Concerns about the health and social care workforce are at an all-time high due, in part, to the impact of … Read more
NHS faces staff crisis as student nurse applications plummet after Tories scrapped their grants
Nursing leaders today warn the NHS faces a staffing crisis after figures showed a sharp fall in applications for training … Read more