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That are not accepting the independent pay review process and not accepting those pay recommendations. we are going to talk now to dame anne marie rafferty, who is a professor of nursing policy at king s college london, and an ex president of the nurses union, the royal college of nursing. can i begin by asking, why does the uk have fewer doctors, fewer nurses than other european countries? what s the reason behind it? well, it certainly is something that is long standing, it s not something that has just occurred overnight. we have not been investing enough in doctors and nurses over the last at least 20 years. we did research in the early 2000s, which did direct comparisons to 12 european countries, and from that we demonstrated we were bumping along the bottom quartile, notjust in terms of overall numbers, but in terms of the quality of the skill mix and impact on the nurses psychological welfare, so burn out rates as well as intention to leave. ....
Of the skill mix and impact on the nurses psychological welfare, so burn out rates as well as intention to leave. so these problems have been brewing for a long time. so i think for the public watching, it can be very confusing because you have these two separate arguments. you have the government saying that we are recruiting more, there s another 36,000 nurses, another 5,000 doctors. at the same time, we have these huge vacancy rates, we just can t fill these vacancies rates in the health service. so, are both those things true at the same time? we can be recruiting more, but we still have these gaps in the service? over the period of the last ten years, we ve had boom bust approach to recruitment, turn the tap on, turn the tap off, and although i think politicians claim there is more, they are recruiting more, yes, they are, but more doesn t necessarily mean enough. so there s been no real ....
Size of the nhs waiting lists is unlikely to start falling in the near future. unlikely to start falling in the near future. ., ., ., , ., , near future. you mention more staff, but re near future. you mention more staff, but pretty much near future. you mention more staff, but pretty much every near future. you mention more staff, but pretty much every interview - near future. you mention more staff, but pretty much every interview i - but pretty much every interview i have done in recent weeks and months with people working in the health sector, they say that they don t have enough staff, that they are stretched to the limit. i have enough staff, that they are stretched to the limit. stretched to the limit. i don t think anybody stretched to the limit. i don t think anybody doubts - stretched to the limit. i don t think anybody doubts that, l stretched to the limit. i don t think anybody doubts that, i | stretched to the limit. i don t - think anybody doubts that, i think the ....
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