Monday 3 April 2017

NHS to fast-track UK nurses to combat record departures of EU staff

NHS to fast-track UK nurses to combat record departures of EU staff Chief executive of NHS England announces new training programme to ‘grow the workforce from within this country’

NHS England is to launch a new nursing training programme to help plug the gap created by the record number of Europeans leaving the health service since the Brexit vote.

Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, acknowledged that the service relies on international staff, including the more than 12,000 nurses who are EU nationals out of the 315,000 nurses on the NHS’s payroll. Continue reading... The Guardian

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