NHS faces 'greatest workforce crisis' in history - putting safety at 'serious risk', says shock report
MPs said while some progress had been made towards a target of recruiting 50,000 nurses, the government was set to miss its target to recruit 6,000 more GPs, as promised in the Conservative Party manifesto.now poses a serious risk to staff and patient safety both for routine and emergency care. It also costs more, as patients present later with more serious illness.
MPs said the government's"refusal" to make workforce planning data public"means that the basic question which every health and care worker is asking: are we training enough staff to meet patient need? will remain unanswered".Government progress rating 'inadequate'A separate report by the committee's panel of independent experts rates the government's progress overall to meet key commitments it has made on workforce as"inadequate".
"Unless government grapples with this long-term staffing shortage, none of us are going to be able to access the timely cancer care and treatment that we need to, when we need it." He said health leaders were"beyond worried" about the government's"sustained reluctance to act decisively on NHS and social care staffing" which he said posed a"serious risk to both staff and patient safety".Care crisis: 'I'm afraid to get old'Patricia Marquis, the Royal College of Nursing's director for England, said the report's findings of serious risk to staff and patient safety"should shock ministers into action".
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