Nursing has been woefully managed. No wonder there's a crisis | Richard Vize

From ditched bursaries to poor pay, the policies behind the NHS recruitment and retention crisis have been laid bare in a new report

The health select committee’s report on the nursing workforce is a excoriating critique of the multiple errors in policy and practice that have created a recruitment and retention crisis. Indeed, it is difficult to identify a single aspect of nursing workforce management that is not being mishandled.

The UK has relatively few nurses compared with many EU countries – yet there are still 36,000 NHS nursing vacancies in England. Around 33,000 of these are filled with bank and agency staff, which ramps up costs.

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It is difficult to identify a single aspect of nursing workforce management that is not being mishandled

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