Nurses: Recruitment
(asked on 12th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to take steps to (a) increase the number of nurses recruited into the NHS and (b) help ensure NHS nurses feel valued in order to increase retention.
This question was answered on 1st November 2022
We are on schedule to deliver an additional 50,000 nurses by the end of March 2024, with over 29,000 more nurses working in the National Health Service compared with September 2019. Organisations are responsible for developing retention plans, which can be informed by guidance for NHS employers and the 2020 NHS People Plan.