UK: The Need for Nurses; Shortage of Nurses, and General Practice Doctors

From The Times, yesterday, 7th May, 2019 - NHS looks abroad for thousands of nurses

"The NHS is to begin a global recruitment drive for tens of thousands of foreign nurses over the next five years as it struggles to fill gaps on wards".


From The Times,, January 27, 2017 - Staff crisis grows as foreign nurses abandon the NHS

"Hospitals are already struggling to find enough qualified nurses, with tens of thousands of vacancies and many wards dangerously understaffed".


Related: GP pressure - Numbers show first sustained drop for 50 years, BBC News, 8 May, 2019

"The NHS is seeing the first sustained fall in GP numbers in the UK for 50 years, the BBC can reveal. An analysis by the Nuffield Trust for the BBC shows the number of GPs per 100,000 people has fallen from nearly 65 in 2014 to 60 last year".