CPD cuts 'will lead to fewer advanced nurses in NHS', MPs have been warned

[Northerner]

Fewer nurses are expected to be trained in specialist and advanced roles in the NHS over the coming years due to the “decimation” of professional development funding, a group of MPs has been warned during an inquiry into nursing workforce shortages.

The reduction in the NHS national budget for continuing professional development training – which has been more than halved in the space of two years – is also “the biggest single factor” causing nurses to leave their jobs, the MPs were told during a hearing this week.

The chief executives of the Royal College of Nursing and the body representing NHS employers both laid out their concerns over the funding reductions while giving evidence to the Commons’ health select committee on Tuesday.

https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/w...er-advanced-nurses-mps-warned/7022039.article

 

[grovesy]

Training budget always gets cut in NHS in hard times.

 

[Amigo]

It’s so short sighted because well trained nurses who progress to Nurse Practitioner level and Specialist Nurse can take so much pressure off over stretched GP’s dealing with the more routine problems that patients present with.

 

[mikeyB]

It’s not short sighted, it’s criminally insane.