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Originally Posted by Chris

How is there any fault? To fully staff the nightingales with fully qualified medical staff would require them to have commenced training years ago and would have represented a commitment to grossly over staffing the NHS for no justifiable reason. You can’t just keep those numbers of people sitting around, not least because they need to continue to practice to maintain skills.

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I don't buy that, Chris. We've been bringing in foreign doctors because the job didn't attract sufficient UK candidates for the reasons I previously gave. It's a governmental failure going back more that 20 years.