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Through a Google search to understand more about todays article in The Times on NHS staffing budgets I instead found this, from 2016. It’s just incredible to read the themes then and now: ➡️ In 2016 we were relying on EU nurses coming to plug the gap, with a suggestion of a cap of 3-5,000 a year (there were over 23,000 nurses who joined internationally 21/22) ➡️ It was cited that “was no good reason why the supply of nurses cannot be sourced domestically”, adding that there was presumption by the NHS and government that non-EU nurses provided the NHS with a “get out of jail free card”. ➡️ There are complex institutional structures, which blur the decision making process and lead, amongst other things, to poor information and data making it difficult for them (and us) to understand and respond meaningfully to labour shortages ➡️ A lack of lessons learnt from the late 1990s-early 2000s when a similar shortage (and reliance on foreign nurses) occurred. ➡️ Almost all issues relate to, and are caused by, a desire to save money which ultimately result in increased costs and reduced quality services 8 years on were in an even worse place and the headlines are to spend less on Doctors and Nurses… 🤦♀️
Bethany Bishop
5mo
As long as history repeats itself the NHS will be in trouble. Governments, of whatever colour, use the NHS as a political football to gain the public vote!
Nadia Babar
5mo
A lot of rhetoric recently scapegoating recruitment and staffing costs… It’s very easy to blame the shortage of funds on overspending on staff, when it’s pretty likely that the funds that currently exist are simply being misallocated (like on new, unnecessary, “AI-driven” tools). Makes absolutely no sense to plug the gap by reducing spend on the very thing the NHS needs to function 😶
Nurse Educator & Researcher ( EI, Emotions, Nursing, Learning & Leadership) . NLP Trainer: I help people unlock their personal and professional development. Views are my own.
5moA sad reality and damning inditement of the 'administration of healthcare' in the UK is that there is very little occurring today in terms of a source of challenge: resources, staffing, bed spaces, budgets, culture, management that has not been an issue in the last 10, 20, 30 years of my nursing practice. Political expediency, political obfuscation and a broken value base to the everyday work of professional healthcare staff - nurses, (registered and unregistered), AHP, doctors) who suffer the ignominy of substantive evidence that (in general) working in a supermarket or driving a train is far more financially rewarding than their current role - which is dulled by meaningless drivel around 'vocation'. Let's not pretend that a new incoming Gov. will change this - without a root and branch change in values, ethics, leadership, management, and role analysis and reward.