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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
We agree that there is fault. For the past 20 years, the various Guvmins have screwed up NHS training and recruitment.
Again well within my living past, there were nurses' homes (they didn't need to pay extortionate London rents), the training was free for all medical staff. Now it's high student loans at little incentive to train. This article offers an insiught:
https://theconversation.com/the-numb...o-blame-131077
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As many of us said at the time, it was a short-sighted idea to introduce loans for student nurses.
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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
The NHS doesn’t have tens of thousands of current vacancies for staff that would have been deployable to help staff the nightingales ?
In 2019 there were according to the nursing times 43,000 nursing vacancies
That’s pre pandemic
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Brexit has not helped matters:
More than 22,000 EU nationals have left NHS since Brexit referendum, figures show
Large drop in the number of new nurses coming from the EU to work in the UK
EU nurses no longer feel welcome in Britain