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Mar 2019
Experts say NHS have ‘no chance of training enough staff’
A report by the Health Foundation, King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust has predicted that in the next five years GP gaps will increase threefold and nursing shortages will double, unless radical action is taken.
The three leading think tanks say that a combination of innovation, students grants and international recruitment is needed to stop the predicted shortfall.
According to current figures, almost 3,000 extra GPs and 30,000 nurses are needed, and the predictions are that this will rise to over 7,000 GPs and 70,000 nurses within the next five years.
Anita Charlesworth, co-author of the report, said “The workforce is the make-or-break issue for the health service.
“Unless staffing shortages are substantially reduced, the recent NHS Long Term Plan can only be a wish list.”
Solutions to the problem have been suggested, for example, enticing nurses into the field through making studying more attractive, by waiving university fees for students who have completed a degree and with to retrain to be a nurse.
The report recommends a different approach for GPs, for example easing their workload through physiotherapists and pharmacists seeing patients who they are able to help.
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