Analysis: The challenge of recruiting more nurses into general practice
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan has set welcome targets for recruitment, but are its aspirations realistic given the current situation in general practice?
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The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan has set welcome targets for recruitment, but are its aspirations realistic given the current situation in general practice?
The downward trend in nurses working in adult social care has reversed for the first time in a decade, but the workforce remains “precarious”. Read more.
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Richard Marks explains why a group of anaesthetists is calling for a wider debate on increasing the number of anaesthesia associates In the past I never really gave much thought to anaesthesia associates. I knew that they were science graduates or healthcare practitioners who did a two year course that allowed them to provide anaesthetic care. Theoretically, they always worked under supervision and with a very restricted scope of practice, although I had heard from colleagues that both of these restrictions were being breached. Yet there were only a few hundred associates in the country. What ...
Nursing staff have been “left out” of a new bonus scheme which aims to retain more public sector workers, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned.