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NHS will still be short of nurses in five years
Ian Dalton, the chief executive of NHS Improvement, has warned that he thinks it will be more than five years before the number of nurses the NHS needs becomes available to the service.
Speaking to senior health service leaders ahead of the publication of the NHS long term plan and national workforce strategies, the Health Service Journal reports that Dalton thinks that supply and demand of the medical workforce would ‘break even’ by the end of the first five years of these plans.
However, the shortfall of nurses was harder to solve, with the NHS Improvement boss expecting that reaching a point of parity would take longer than five years.
According to latest figures from NHS Improvement, there has been a slight drop in the number of NHS nurse vacancies, but it warned earlier this month that filling gaps remained a big challenge.
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