Real progress would be scrapping the pay cap and increasing the availability of good clinical placements
The government’s announcement of 10,000 additional training places for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals has rightly been welcomed but let’s not get carried away. After all, as the RCN’s recent analysis identified, there are 40,000 nursing vacancies in the NHS in England alone.
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