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Labour's healthcare plans will be 'impossible to deliver' unless it can stop the mass exodus of nursing from the profession, experts say. Plans to modernise the NHS and shift care into the community will require tens of thousands more nurses working in local communities outside hospitals. But analysis of the latest Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) data found significantly higher numbers of nurses quitting within years of joining the profession.
Dissatisfaction over wages is likely to have worsened since Labour's promised pay hikes to resident doctors and train drivers, both significantly higher than those offered to nursing staff. NHS workers from the Royal College of Nursing and Unite striking in May 2023. The RCN has warned of a 'perfect storm' of more staff leaving and fewer joining the profession Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
The Government has been urged to substantially raise pay to make nursing more attractive and boost recruitment The college predicts more than 11,000 nurses will quit within a decade of qualifying - equivalent to the entire district nurse, health visitor and school nurse workforce in England. The RCN analysed the latest NMC data of UK-educated nursing staff leaving the register in England. Between 2021 and 2024, the numbers.
.. Kate Pickles.
