NHS 'haemorrhaging' nurses as 33,000 leave each year

[Northerner]

The NHS is "haemorrhaging" nurses with one in 10 now leaving the NHS in England each year, figures show.

More than 33,000 walked away last year, piling pressure on understaffed hospitals and community services.

The figures - provided to the BBC by NHS Digital - represent a rise of 20% since 2012-13, and mean there are now more leavers than joiners.

Nurse leaders said it was a "dangerous and downward spiral", but NHS bosses said the problem was being tackled.

The figures have been compiled as part of an in-depth look at nursing by the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42653542

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

Shocking! And now they have taken away the bursary for student nurses too, ridiculous

 

[Hepato-pancreato]

From A nurse and a sister who work in a busy hospital. They are getting paid £30 an hour to work 8 hour shifts as overtime. As put by said nurse 1 shift a week equal an extra £1,000 a month.

 

[grovesy]

Shocking! And now they have taken away the bursary for student nurses too, ridiculous

Yes but for years they have reduced training places when cuts are made training is one of the first to be cut. There have been shortage of train places for years.

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

From A nurse and a sister who work in a busy hospital. They are getting paid £30 an hour to work 8 hour shifts as overtime. As put by said nurse 1 shift a week equal an extra £1,000 a month.

Wow!

 

[pav]

From a patient and a long term visitor, one gets the feeling that some nurses are leaving because they are put on by others. My local hospital is the pits for care on most wards with a few exceptions, day to day care is done by a few hard working nurses who give their all and love the job. Then there are some others who are just there for the money and don't have any patient care in them, after speeding months of going into hospital visiting one could easily see the pattern of what was going on. As in like some other work places the skivers were not touched and left to the skiving which led to more and more pressure being put on the hard working ones, complaints get ignored or brushed under the carpets like all the dust and dirt brushed under the beds, one could write your name in the dust in some places. The hard working ones eventually give up and leave to places where they are more thought of, what is needed is to cut some layers of management divert the money to where it's needed and what's left of management grow some back bone and tackle the problem areas.

 

[mikeyB]

Bring back Matrons. They were responsible for every clinical and non clinical task on their ward. Junior doctors, nurses and cleaners obeyed their every word, I can tell you.

 

[grovesy]

Having trained just after the demise of Matrons, they were not that fondly thought of.

 

[mikeyB]

I agree, grovesy. But that marks the line when standards dropped, or so it seems to me as a user rather than a player.