The NHS workforce faces an unprecedented staffing crisis, according to a damning new report.
NHS patient safety is being repeatedly put at risk by persistent understaffing, according to a damning new report.
Maternity services are also said to be facing ‘unsustainable pressure’, while research from the Nuffield Trust suggests that in England alone, the NHS is short of 12,000 hospital doctors and more than 50,000 nurses and midwives. But projections included in the committee’s findings suggest an extra 475,000 jobs will be needed in health and an extra 490,000 jobs in social care by the early 2030s.
Explaining that the NHS loses millions days to staff sickness caused by anxiety, stress and depression, the report found: ‘The result is that many in an exhausted workforce are considering leaving – and if they do pressure will increase still further on their colleagues.But MPs said it was not possible to know whether enough staff are being trained because the Government ‘refuses’ to make workforce planning data public.
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