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CQC warns trust over maternity staffing
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The trust with the highest perinatal mortality rates in the country has been told it must improve its midwifery staffing. Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is now reporting weekly to the Care Quality Commission about staffing on its maternity wards after being served a section 29A warning notice, it has emerged. It followed inspections of its maternity and neonatal services in December and January. The trust, one of the largest in England, has already moved some neonatal care out of one of its hospitals, after issues were raised by the inspection. It was also told to provide details to the CQC about how its board is informed about unmitigated risks and how its quality review meetings are assured over midwifery staffing, according to information seen by HSJ. The trust also promised to provide assurance shifts would be filled by qualified and competent staff and that its rota would be compliant with numbers dictated by the Birthrate Plus safer staffing tool. The requirements remain in force until the CQC decides they are no longer needed. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 11 June 2025 -
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Spending on agency staff across NHS in England drops by almost £1bn
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Spending on agency staff across the NHS in England dropped by almost £1bn in the last financial year, ministers have said, after a pledge by Wes Streeting to cut the amount going to agencies by 30%. According to the Department of Health and Social Care, the total spent by trusts on agency staff during 2024-25 was nearly £1bn lower than the previous year. In a speech to the NHS Providers conference in November, Streeting, the health secretary, said a lack of permanent staff had seen gaps filled by more expensive agency-provided replacements totalling about £3bn a year. Under proposals outlined at the time, but not yet enacted, Streeting suggested that NHS trusts could be completely banned from using agency staff for lower level jobs such as healthcare assistants and domestic support workers. In addition to employing agency staff, which can mean paying a doctor thousand of pounds for a single shift, NHS trusts also routinely plug gaps by using what are known as “bank” staff – NHS employees who do extra shifts at their own workplace or one nearby, via an organisation usually run by the trust. UK-wide figures reported by the Guardian in January 2024 showed that the combined spend of hospitals and GP surgeries for agency staff was an annual £4.6bn, with another £5.8bn used for bank shifts. As part of the clampdown on agency spending, Streeting and James Mackey, the chief executive of the imminently abolished NHS England, have jointly written to all NHS providers and integrated care board executives to set out that each should target the 30% reduction, and that their progress will be monitored. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 2 June 2025 -
Content ArticleUnderstaffing by nursing staff in hospitals is linked to patients coming to harm and dying unnecessarily. There is a vicious cycle whereby poor work conditions, including understaffing, can lead to nursing vacancies, which in turn leads to further understaffing. Is hospital investment in nursing staff, to eliminate understaffing on wards, cost-effective? This longitudinal observational study analysed data on 185 adult acute units in four hospital Trusts in England over a 5-year period. The study found that exposure to registered nurse understaffing is associated with increased hazard of death, increased chance of readmission and increased length of stay, while exposure to nursing support understaffing is associated with smaller increases in hazard of death and length of stay but reduced readmissions. Rectifying understaffing on inpatient wards is crucial to reduce length of stay, readmissions and deaths. According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence £10 000 per QALY threshold, it is cost-effective to eliminate understaffing by nursing staff. This research points towards investing in registered nurses over nursing support staff and permanent over temporary workers. Targeting particular patient groups would benefit fewer patients and is less cost-effective.
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News ArticleSweeping changes to immigration rules could cut the “lifeline” of international recruitment for the UK care sector and negatively impact the NHS, leaders have warned. The government unveiled its Restoring Control over the Immigration System white paper on 12 May in which it said it would close social care visas to new applications from abroad because of “significant concerns over abuse and exploitation of individual workers.” “The agreements will move the UK away from dependence on overseas workers to fulfil our care needs,” said the paper, which aimed to tackle longstanding levels of low pay and poor working conditions in the sector in other ways, such as through establishing fair pay agreements. Read full story (paywalled) Source: BMJ, 13 May 2025
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WHO: State of the world's nursing report 2025
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The global nursing workforce has grown from 27.9 million in 2018 to 29.8 million in 2023, but wide disparities in the availability of nurses remain across regions and countries, according to the State of the World’s Nursing 2025 report, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), International Council of Nurses (ICN) and partners. Inequities in the global nursing workforce leave many of the world’s population without access to essential health services, which could threaten progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), global health security and the health-related development goals. The new report released on International Nurses Day provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the nursing workforce at global, regional and country levels. Consolidating information from WHO’s 194 Member States, the evidence indicates global progress in reducing the nursing workforce shortage from 6.2 million in 2020 to 5.8 million in 2023, with a projection to decline to 4.1 million by 2030. But, the overall progress still masks deep regional disparities: approximately 78% of the world’s nurses are concentrated in countries representing just 49% of the global population. Low- and middle-income countries are facing challenges in graduating, employing and retaining nurses in the health system and will need to raise domestic investments to create and sustain jobs. In parallel, high-income countries need to be prepared to manage high levels of retiring nurses and review their reliance on foreign-trained nurses, strengthening bilateral agreements with the countries they recruit from. -
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NHS managers must undergo ‘cultural intelligence training’ says watchdog
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NHS managers should receive “cultural intelligence training” to tackle issues such as “the legacy of the British Empire” and improve the experience of overseas recruits, the National Guardian’s Office has recommended. The NGO’s report examined the experience of international recruits to the NHS, with a particular focus on their willingness to speak out about concerns. It found overseas staff face disproportionately higher scrutiny, are given limited support and are often penalised before they have had time to settle into their role. International recruits often felt “invisible”, the report concluded. The report states the responsibility for adapting, including the implications for speaking up, was often on overseas-trained staff and “a lack of cultural intelligence” was a “repeated theme”, according to the body which leads, trains and supports a network of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in England. It said this highlighted the need for better understanding and outreach by employers. The NGO calls for “a meaningful approach to cultural competence” which goes “beyond superficial gestures like cultural exchange days”. It stated that: “A two-way process of cultural intelligence is needed, where organisations actively seek to understand and adapt to the experiences and perspectives of overseas-trained workers.” Most FTSU Guardians said training on speaking up was available in their organisations, however, only 16.9% surveyed said their organisations provided training to managers on how to support overseas-trained workers. More than half said they did not know if any such training existed. The report recommends NHS England includes “cultural intelligence training” for NHS staff, managers and leaders as part of its Leadership and Management Framework programme by April 2026. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 1 May 2025 -
Content ArticleOverseas-trained healthcare workers are reluctant to speak up about issues such as patient safety fearing it could lead to losing their right to work in the UK, according to a review from the National Guardian Freedom to Speak Up Listening and learning: Amplifying the voices of overseas-trained workers, a review of the speaking up experiences of overseas-trained workers in England highlights the unique challenges faced by NHS workers trained outside the UK when speaking up. Overseas-trained workers are a vital part of the NHS workforce. The National Guardian Freedom to Speak Up review sheds light on their experience, looking at the specific issues faced by overseas-trained workers in speaking up. The report also highlighting examples of good practice. The review finds that overseas-trained workers experience additional barriers to speaking up compared to domestically trained colleagues. To make it easier for overseas-trained workers to speak up, we are calling for action to: Make recruitment and retention guidance support speaking up. Design speaking up arrangements that work for everyone. Use better data to understand and improve experiences. Build cultural competence and awareness to remove barriers to speaking up.
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News ArticleAround 49,000 A&E patients had to wait 24 hours or more for a hospital bed in England last year, according to NHS figures. Data compiled by the Liberal Democrats from freedom of information requests shows the longest wait was 10 days and 13 hours. The party said there were 48,830 "trolley waits" of 24 hours or longer in 2024. That is 19.8% higher than 2023 (40,735) and 57.9% higher than 2022 (30,921). A "trolley wait" is the time taken for a patient to be transferred to a ward after a decision has been taken to admit them to hospital. The Lib Dems said the real numbers were likely to be far higher because only 54 out of 141 NHS trusts had provided full data. The Royal College of Nursing said the figures "only begin to scratch the surface" of a "crisis in corridor care" - and that declining recruitment in nursing was adding to the problem. General secretary Professor Nicola Ranger said corridor care is "undignified and unsafe" and "must be eradicated". Read full story Source: Sky News, 21 April 2025 Further reading on the hub: How corridor care in the NHS is affecting safety culture: A blog by Claire Cox The crisis of corridor care in the NHS: patient safety concerns and incident reporting Response to RCN report: On the frontline of the UK’s corridor care crisis
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Systems still reliant on agency staff
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Six systems are still using more than 30% of their temporary staffing spend to employ agency workers, HSJ research has revealed. The investigation also highlights that the NHS will need to reduce spending on bank staff by almost as much as that on agency workers for the first time. Internal NHS England figures seen by HSJ reveal providers were on course to spend £8.3bn on temporary staffing in 2024-25, down from just under £10bn the previous year. Three quarters of the overall spend in 2024-25 (£6bn) went on employing bank workers, with the remainder used for agency staff. Providers have been encouraged to shift agency workers to their staff banks for a number of years. However, HSJ research has revealed some systems are still struggling to move away from a reliance on agency staff. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 22 April 2025 Related reading on the hub: Speaking up as an agency nurse cost me my career My experience as an agency nurse -
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'The NHS can't tell me where my job will be'
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Jayne Evans has completed four years at medical school in London - but says she is still being left in the dark about where her first permanent NHS position will be. "I was told that I don't have a job set aside for me," she said. "They've guaranteed we will only be offered jobs other people decline and there's just no sort of timeline that they can give us." Ms Evans has been given a rough idea of where she will be working - the Trent area, which spans almost all of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire - but no further clues. She is one of hundreds of newly-qualified medical students who have not been found a specific job by the NHS yet. Instead they have a so-called "placeholder job", meaning they have only been told the rough part of the country they will be in. Without knowing where they will be living, they say they are not able to start preparations for moving. Ms Evans said it had overshadowed her achievement in qualifying. "I was expecting around this time to feel excited or even nervous, but now mostly I just feel angry and disrespected," she said. "I went into medicine and was told we needed doctors and the NHS needs help but I've been told there is no job for me." Dr Hassan Nassar was one of more than 1,000 medical students in the same position last year. The BMA, the union that represents doctors and medical students in the UK, has accused the government of failing to plan for an increase in resident doctors - formerly known as junior doctors - after increasing the number of medical school places. "The government has increased the number of medical school places - but not the number of foundation jobs," Callum Williams, the union's deputy chair of education, said. "The government needs to increase that funding - and these jobs should go to UK-trained doctors first." Mr Williams said there was a danger students would move abroad. "It's your first job with the NHS, it is supposed to be exciting and instead it leaves a sour taste in your mouth," he said. Read full story Source: BBC News, 7 April 2025 -
News ArticleBrexit has left the NHS increasingly dependent on doctors and nurses from poor “red list” countries, from which the World Health Organization says it is wrong to recruit. The health service in England has hired tens of thousands of health staff from countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe since the UK left the EU single market at the end of 2020. A post-Brexit surge in the number of health professionals from red list countries working in England has sparked criticism that hiring so many is “unethical” and “immoral”, and will damage those countries’ health systems. The big jump means the NHS now employs 65,610 staff from the WHO’s 55 red list countries in its 1.5 million-strong workforce. It has taken on 32,935 of those since the start of 2021, including 20,665 who joined in the 20 months between March 2023 and November 2024 alone, according to NHS figures obtained by the Nuffield Trust health thinktank. Mark Dayan, a policy analyst at the thinktank and Brexit programme lead, said: “Recruiting on this scale, from countries the World Health Organization believe have troublingly few staff, is difficult to justify ethically for a still much wealthier country. “Yet again, British failure to train enough healthcare staff has been bailed out by those trained overseas.” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 21 March 2025
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Content ArticleGovernments worldwide have sought to reform the delivery of public services by mimicking private sector governance models that grant top directors greater autonomy, give them responsibility for meeting key government targets and reward performance with respect to these targets. This paper examines a central plank of this approach–that directors can impact the organisations they run–in the context of English public hospitals, complex organisations with multi-million turnover. The authors find little evidence of top directors’ impact on hospital performance, though estimated differences in pay suggest that the directors are perceived to be differentiated by the market. The results question the effectiveness of blindly mimicking the private sector to bring about improvements in public sector performance.
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Why does no one want Scotland’s £90k patient safety job?
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Applications have re-opened for a £90,000-a-year patient safety role after two previous attempts to fill the role were unsuccessful. MSPs passed a law creating the post of Scotland's first ever Patient Safety Commissioner in September 2023. But despite a hefty salary, they have been unable to fill the post. The first round of interviews in April last year was unsuccessful with the cross party panel of MSPs turning down all of the candidates who were interviewed. The second round in November saw them offer the job to one candidate but they turned it down. The Commissioner’s role is to “advocate for the systematic improvement in the safety of health care and to promote the importance of the views of patients and other members of the public in relation to the safety of health care". It was created in the wake of a UK Government commissioned review of the hormonal pregnancy test Primodos, Sodium Valproate in pregnancy and transvaginal surgical mesh. Read full story (paywalled) Source: The Herald, 10 February 2025 -
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UK cut health aid to vulnerable nations while hiring their nurses, research finds
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The UK cut health aid to some of the world’s vulnerable countries at the same time as recruiting thousands of their nurses, in a “double whammy” for fragile health systems, new analysis has found. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which carried out the research, said Labour had a “duty to fix” aid cuts imposed by the previous government, and to work on increasing the UK’s domestic supply of nurses. Between 2020 and 2023, direct UK aid for health-related projects in “red list” countries – those with the most severe workforce shortages – fell by nearly 63%, from £484m to £181m. Spending on projects designed to strengthen the healthcare workforce in those countries fell by 83%, from £24m to £4m. At the same time, the number of nurses from these countries on the UK’s national register rose sharply. There were 11,386 registered in September 2020, and 32,543 in September 2024. Professor Nicola Ranger, RCN general secretary and chief executive, said: “Cuts to aid may have been the previous government’s idea, but it is now this government’s duty to fix it. “Recruiting heavily from the same countries from which we have deprived aid is a double whammy for some of the world’s most fragile healthcare systems. But it is also a damning indictment of successive governments’ unwillingness to properly fund and grow our own domestic nursing profession.” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 6 January 2025 -
Content ArticleThis one-page guide outlines six ways health systems in Canada can improve to better support and retain the health workforce. Based on evidence and feedback from health leaders nationwide, it describes six strategies that can help make health systems more supportive and sustainable for those who work in them: Fostering physically safe work environments. Enhancing sustainable staffing. Building flexible work structures. Provide equitable and appropriate compensation. Ensuring supportive and inclusive workplaces. Supporting career advancement. Although produced by Healthcare Excellence Canada, it is relevant to health systems globally.
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Patient Safety Learning appoints new Director and Associate Director
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We are delighted to announce that we have appointed to two new roles at Patient Safety Learning, following a recent recruitment process. Clare Wade, currently Assistant Director at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, will take up the new role of Director, reporting to our Chief Executive. She will support the development and delivery of our organisational strategy and take a leading role in the development of our ‘how to’ resources, products and services. She will join the charity at the end of November. Claire Cox, currently Patient Safety Lead at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, will take up the new role of Associate Director, reporting to our Director. Claire currently holds a voluntary role with the charity, chairing the Patient Safety Management Network, that she also co-founded. In this new role she will help to coordinate and support the development of our patient safety networks and develop and deliver our ‘how to’ resources, products and services. She will join the charity at the beginning of January on a part-time basis, while continuing in her role with Kings College Hospital. Commenting on these appointments, our Chief Executive Helen Hughes said: “I am delighted we can appoint Clare and Claire to these newly created leadership roles. They will both play a vital role in the growth of the charity and help us to make the case that patient safety should be a core purpose of health and care.” On being appointed, Clare Wade said: “I am excited to join the Patient Safety Learning team driving forward important initiatives to support patient safety improvements across the healthcare landscape.” On being appointed, Claire Cox said: “I am very happy to be joining Patient Safety Learning in this role, and looking forward to further developing the growing number of informal peer support networks for people involved in patient safety hosted on the hub.”- Posted
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Reforms of NHS don’t stand a chance unless recruitment is fixed, say top nurses
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Top nurses have said that planned government reforms for the health service “stand no chance” if issues with recruitment and retention in the profession are not addressed. They made the warning as new figures show the number of nurses and midwives registered in the UK has grown to a record high. However, experts say the workforce is “increasingly inexperienced”, faces worrying shortages and still relies heavily on candidates from overseas. Policymakers have been urged to consider measures such as student loan forgiveness schemes to ensure there are enough homegrown staff. The latest mid-year report from the Nursing and Midwifery Council shows there were a record 841,367 professionals on the register as of the end of September, an increase of 14,949 compared with the previous six months and 22% higher than March 2017. Nevertheless, Prof Nicola Ranger, the general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), called the figures “bad news for patients”. She said: “Nurse recruitment is slowing, the numbers of new starters is falling and we are witnessing a devastating increase in people leaving within five years of joining. At a time of widespread vacancies, these trends are incredibly worrying for our NHS and the people that rely on its care. Across health and care services, international recruitment was utilised to plug rota gaps, but we are now watching as thousands of overseas staff choose to go elsewhere." Read full story Source: The Guardian, 2 December 2024 -
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UK falls “well below” EU average on doctors per population, report finds
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The UK had a shortage of around 176 000 doctors, nurses, and midwives in 2022 and has become over-reliant on international recruitment, warns a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The report, which looked at the state of health in the EU, found that in total EU countries had an estimated shortage of 1.2 million doctors, nurses, and midwives. It cited multiple factors, including ageing populations, difficult working conditions, staff burnout, and challenges presented by the covid pandemic. Significant inequalities also continue to exist between EU member states. Read full story (paywalled) Source: BMJ, 21 November 2024 -
Content ArticleThe Royal College of Anaesthetists 'Our State of the Nation 2024' report shows the dire shortage of anaesthetists is limiting the ability of the NHS to reduce patient waiting lists, as the UK lags behind the rest of Europe in anaesthetic staffing levels. With only 14 anaesthetists per 100,000 people, the UK ranks 26th in Europe, far below comparable countries like Germany, where the equivalent figure is 37, Italy (25) and even some lower income countries like Moldova (16). The shortage of anaesthetists prevents around 1.4 million operations and procedures from taking place each year. The RCoA warns this figure could increase to 8.25 million unless the government invests in training more anaesthetists because most operations cannot take place without one. On average across the UK, the number of anaesthetists is 15% lower than needed, although there is some national and regional variation. The shortage is slightly worse in Wales (17%) than the other UK nations and within England, the shortfall is greatest in the East of England and the North-West, at 18% lower than needed. The report highlights there are currently thousands of doctors who want to train as anaesthetists but there are not enough training posts for them to do so. This year there were 3,520 applications for an available 540 core anaesthetic training places. At the same time, NHS trusts and health boards are increasingly using expensive agency locum staff to plug gaps. In 2022, there were 399 locum consultants working in NHS trusts and health boards, a much costlier option than a permanent consultant anaesthetist. The shortage also puts anaesthetists under increasing pressure as they struggle with additional workload, fuelling burnout and compounding the NHS retention crisis. Of anaesthetists who retired or left the profession early, 25% did so because of issues to do with mental wellbeing, burnout, or stress. And one in five anaesthetists surveyed in 2021 said they intended to leave the NHS within five years. The report calls for urgent intervention to fund more anaesthetic training places, both in the immediate and long term and for urgent implementation of measures to improve retention of anaesthetists currently working in the NHS.
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High staff turnover rates linked to patient deaths
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More than 4,000 people could be dying per year because of high turnover rates of nurses and doctors in NHS hospitals, according to new research from the University of Surrey. The university said the research had shown a clear association between high turnover rates of nurses and doctors in NHS hospitals and a "troubling" rise in patient mortality rates. The study analysed nearly a decade of data from 148 NHS hospitals in England using anonymised patient and worker records. The researchers found that a one standard deviation increase in nurse turnover is associated with 35 additional deaths per 100,000 hospital admissions within 30 days. With an average of 8.2 million hospital admissions occurring annually, the turnover rates of hospital nurses and senior doctors could translate to nearly 335 additional deaths each month across the NHS. Dr Giuseppe Moscelli, lead researcher of the study at the University of Surrey, said: "Our findings underscore the vital role that stable staffing plays in ensuring patient safety. "High turnover rates are not simply an administrative issue; they have real, life-or-death implications for patients. It's time for healthcare leaders to focus on retention strategies that prioritise workforce stability." Read full story Source: BBC News, 21 November 2024 -
Content ArticlePrevious research suggests that survival of patients may be associated with hospital organisational culture. Organisational factors such as culture, staffing, and retention of staff are crucial to patient safety. In a linked study covering nine years of monthly data from all NHS acute trusts in England, Moscelli and colleagues showed that a high turnover of senior doctors (hospital consultants and specialty associated doctors) and nurses in hospitals is associated with increased mortality for patients admitted for emergencies. For the 30 day mortality risk, a 1 standard deviation increase in the monthly turnover rate of nurses was associated with a 0.052 percentage point increase and of senior doctors was a 0.019 percentage point increase. Turnover rates among nurses showed a stronger association with mortality than turnover rates among doctors. One potential explanation is that while doctors usually meet patients one to one, nurses more often work in teams, which may be disrupted by high turnover rates.No significant association was reported between staff turnover and mortality for elective patients. As the authors suggest, this difference may be explained by the fact that elective patients have a lower mortality risk than patients in emergency departments. It should also be noted that well practiced processes are especially important in emergency settings where time is crucial. Decisions must be taken quickly and under stress. Therefore, patients in the emergency departments might be particularly susceptible to when the staff is less experienced or not well settled into their team.
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Licences granted to nearly 200 UK care providers despite labour law violations
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Nearly 200 care providers have been given government licences to bring foreign nurses to the UK despite having previously violated labour laws, according to a study that highlights widespread employment problems in the social care sector. The report by the Work Rights Centre shows 177 companies in England have been given licences to sponsor carers, even while publicly available information shows them to have violated workers’ protections in the past. The study gives further evidence of major gaps in the government’s oversight of its foreign carer regime, under which hundreds of thousands of nurses and carers have travelled to Britain for work, only for many to experience exploitation and poor working conditions. Dora-Olivia Vicol, chief executive of the Work Rights Centre, said: “Our research finds that breaches of employment rights are endemic in the care sector. This cannot come as a surprise to the Home Office, which granted licences to companies with a history labour violations. “For those who have been exploited, the fear of retaliation from their sponsor employer is enough to force them into silence. On top of this, working conditions are barely tolerable, with work schedules either all-consuming and exhausting, or so sparse that they do not provide enough income to make ends meet.” The organisation also spoke to 92 different carers and found nearly two-thirds reported health and safety breaches, bullying or discrimination at work. Over half also said they were given unsustainable working hours, for example being asked to be on duty for as long as 100 hours a week despite only seeing clients for a fraction of that time. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 12 November 2024 -
Content ArticleThis report explores the workforce challenges facing general practice in England, and highlights the pressing need to address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession or reducing their contracted hours.
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Content ArticleOne in three medical students plan to quit the NHS within two years of graduating, either to practise abroad or abandon medicine altogether, according to a survey published in BMJ Open. Poor pay, work-life balance and working conditions of doctors in the UK were the main factors cited by those intending to emigrate to continue their medical career. The same reasons were also given by those planning to quit medicine altogether, with nearly 82% of them also listing burnout as an important or very important reason. The findings from the study of 10,486 students at the UK’s 44 medical schools triggered calls for action to prevent an exodus of medical students from the NHS.
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Content ArticleGeorgia Stevenson discusses NHS England’s Long Term Workforce Plan, evaluating its potential to alleviate staffing shortages, enhance training routes, and ultimately improve care quality in maternity and neonatal services.
