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Originally Posted by Pierre
I'm sure there are initiatives that could have been undertaken.
Not my area of expertise, but if I was the health secretary or NHS boss, when it is known that we need to increase capacity quickly in the short term then I would have looked at all and any initiatives.
Like I say not my area of expertise but one I can think of, off the bat is How many ex-nurses are there? offer golden hellos to nurses that return.
If there is a real will to do something, something can be done.
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I know quite a few ex-GPs and nurses - they left because they were emotionally and physically exhausted, and had built up enough pensions/savings to live on in retirement.
Money would not incentivise them back into the NHS - much like the previous HMG initiative to increase nurse numbers involved motivating existing nurses to stay in the NHS didn’t (my sister-in-law is an ex-nurse/midwife/district nurse, and wouldn’t go back for love or money).
(a lot of them are, however, volunteering to help out during the current pandemic).