BBCNEWS BBC News at One June 8, 2021 12:21:00
We need a total overhaul of workforce planning, because there is a failure in the system. it takes seven years to train a doctor, three years to train a nurse, and it's never enough of a priority for the department of health and social care and the treasury when it comes to spending reviews, to spend this money on doctors and nurses that you're not going to see for many years hence. health unions have warned excessive workloads across the nhs and social care risk staff leaving their profession early. if that happens, it would be catastrophic for our health service, at a time when we are facing...