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The NHS is facing such chronic shortages of GPs, nurses and specialists in elderly care in the next few years that patients may not get the care they need, a report warns.
Deepening gaps in the service's workforce are so serious that bosses may have to rip up longstanding national pay agreements in order to attract key staff, risking confrontation with the health unions, according to the King's Fund thinktank.
In an assessment of the NHS's 1.4 million labour force, it concludes that while it will soon have too many hospital doctors, there will also be too few psychiatrists and emergency care doctors.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/25/nhs-staff-shortage-pay-kings-fund
Deepening gaps in the service's workforce are so serious that bosses may have to rip up longstanding national pay agreements in order to attract key staff, risking confrontation with the health unions, according to the King's Fund thinktank.
In an assessment of the NHS's 1.4 million labour force, it concludes that while it will soon have too many hospital doctors, there will also be too few psychiatrists and emergency care doctors.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/25/nhs-staff-shortage-pay-kings-fund