Experts call for ‘bold’ solutions as report reveals high dropout rates of trainees during training or early in their careers
The NHS has to train two GPs to produce one full-time family doctor because so many have started to work part-time, new research reveals.
The finding helps explain why GP surgeries are still struggling to give patients appointments as quickly as they would like, despite growing numbers of doctors training to become a GP.
One in eight nursing students in England do not complete their degrees.
For every five students doing a nursing degree at university, the NHS only gets three full-time nurses.
One in five newly qualified nurses working in hospitals or community settings quit within two years.
The number of UK nurses joining the NHS fell by about a third in both 2020/21 and 2021/22 – “a new and worrying dynamic”.
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