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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

... and that's because there is no incentive for people to go into the profession. I've explained why earlier.



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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

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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

Agreed. But this rot started well before the Referendum.