THE NHS is “haemorrhaging” nurses with one in 10 leaving the NHS in England each year, figures show.
More than 33,000 walked away last year, piling pressure on understaffed hospital wards and community services.
The figures – provided to the BBC by NHS Digital – represent a rise of 20% since 2012-13, and mean there are now more leavers than joiners.
Nurse leaders said it was a “dangerous and downward spiral”, but NHS bosses said the problem was being tackled.
The figures have been compiled as part of an in-depth look at nursing by the BBC.
They reveal:
More than 10% of the nursing workforce have left NHS employment in each of the past three years
The number of leavers would be enough to staff more than 20 average-sized hospital trusts
More than half of those who walked away in the last year were under the age of 40
Leavers outnumbered joiners by 3,000 last year, the biggest gap over the five-year period examined by the BBC
Brexit may have had an impact – the number of EU nurses leaving has trebled since 2012-13 to nearly 4,000 last year
The number of joiners has halved since the EU referendum – 2,800 started NHS jobs last year
Nurses are being pulled off research work, special projects and admin roles to plug the gaps
Enough JDP you’ve made the point of privatisation. no need to kill more people. you’ve done it to mental health and the whole NHS.
Jackie Doyle Price you are a profiteer. thats your crime I hope you get a nice fat payment from private healthcare for all your work.
my wife trained at Basildon but she left the NHS years ago,she is much better off in the private sector.no ”on calls” ect ect.
privatisation will be bad for the old and vulnerable. Sick and Ill.
Because they are loss making. keep the NHS owned by the people,
Only the fit and young will be able to get cover under the private system.
Thats just a fact.
As much as the NHS is a good thing (or was), in this day and age it is moving fast towards a pay as you use system.I guess the good thing with that would be that health tourism would stop. The bad thing is we all pay the price.
We must remember, Britain is broke and simply can’t afford it any more.
We wouldn’t be broke if it was not for New Labour and then the tories bailing out the bankers.
There is always money for bankers.
How do the sick and ill pay for private treatment it didn’t work in the 20’s I very much doubt they will fiar well in the 2010’s.
So what do we do with those that cannot pay? you didnt answer that one.
The banking industry is one of our most important and cannot be allowed to collapse. Yes, they did get greedy and there should have been harsher penalties for those concerned.
We are not the only Country broke and you have started to see a New World Order emerge.
No one will ever admit it and but it is looking more like no work, no money, no good. If you look around you it is happening now in Policing, Education, socially and our beloved NHS.
Wake up man!!!
I remember that when I was in Chicago too big to jail too big to fail.
Sounds like Socialism for big business and the rich.
Neoliberlaism for the workers and poor.
Banks should fail its capitalism new ones come along and improve on the business model.
otherwise we are in feudalism.
After all the SME’s the banksters have killed.
asset stripped and driven to suicide. They get no sympathy from me.
Boom and Bust the cycles continue. New World Order my arse.
That really got to me too big to fail too big to jail. How the hell people can believe that crap is beyond me.
Dont tell me.
One Law for the Establishment
another for you and me my friend.
We either live under the same law or its a revolution needed.
You are so out of touch my friend it’s unreal. We do not live under one law at all. It is a case of rich law, poor law without a doubt. Do your research on Grays MC jailing a benefit cheat over a few pounds while a million pound vat fraud was only a fine, so don’t give me that crap.
A New World Order is needed and coming (USA & Europe) and hopefully it will usher in a better system for all.
We need a true politician like Margaret Thatcher with balls to sort this poor sad country out. It is going downhill so fast that maybe your revolution will be here quicker than you think, but then again the British are so apathetic perhaps not.
That was kind of my point. that bailing out the banksters while not bailing out others is unfair and legal but it should not be.
We agree on one thing times need changing we just disagree of who what but not when.
Capitalism has gone to far turning into profiteering and
oligopolies
monopolies and needs to be freed up to competition for all spectrums.
Socialism doesn’t work under capitalism so we need a new fair approach for ALL.
I couldn’t agree more.
Bring on a New World Order.
You may wish to change the saying New World Order. I still remember this said by America after 9/11 calling for PaxAmericana