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The NHS risks losing thousands of nurses to the US if it fails to value and support existing nursing staff, the chief executive of Health Education England has warned.
Speaking at the body’s first annual conference, Professor Ian Cumming said the NHS would be “stuffed” if UK-trained nurses left to plug a massive shortfall in staff across the Atlantic.
He said workforce planning had to become international in its scope, “taking into account the global movement of people”, including a surge in the number of EU nurses wanting to work in the UK.
Professor Cumming noted the “huge number” of nurses and midwives from Spain and Portugal who have been applying to join the UK register.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing...y-mass-exodus-of-nurses-to-us/5070966.article
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Speaking at the body’s first annual conference, Professor Ian Cumming said the NHS would be “stuffed” if UK-trained nurses left to plug a massive shortfall in staff across the Atlantic.
He said workforce planning had to become international in its scope, “taking into account the global movement of people”, including a surge in the number of EU nurses wanting to work in the UK.
Professor Cumming noted the “huge number” of nurses and midwives from Spain and Portugal who have been applying to join the UK register.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing...y-mass-exodus-of-nurses-to-us/5070966.article
(free registration required)