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Why nurses are leaving the NHS
Poor employment conditions and widespread privatisation are just two of the many ills plaguing the NHS - only united action on all fronts can save it, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
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ACCORDING to analysis from the Nuffield Trust 40,000 nurses have left the NHS in the past year, which is more than one in nine of the workforce.
The further 18 million in planned cuts to the NHS and public services will come out of the wages, terms and conditions of front-line staff and will further deepen the staffing crisis.
The accelerating crisis in nurse recruitment and retention has come to a head partly because of the pandemic but this is not the full story. This nurse exodus has been several decades in the making.
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