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Why nursing numbers don’t add up
Nursing Matters
English - May 28, 2021 13:04 - 31 minutesMedicine Health & Fitness nhs nursing healthcare nurses hospital social care Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The nursing workforce is growing, but not fast enough. What does that mean for a profession that’s under increasing pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond? Special guest Professor Jane Ball, Professor of Nursing Workforce Policy at Southampton University, joins us to talk about how nursing can recruit and retain the numbers needed – and why the Government needs to go beyond its target of 50,000 recruits to head off a growing crisis.
Nursing Matters is presented by PNC chair Rachel Hollis and Dr Sue Haines. We’d love to hear your questions. Tweet them to @theRCN tagged #NursingMatters
• “Even before COVID we were desperately short of nurses… And when there’s fewer nurses, more patients die of avoidable conditions.” – Prof Jane Ball
• “With the crisis in staffing we will need to create multiple routes into the profession.” – Sue Haines
• “The system just doesn’t want to hear that it needs more nurses” – Prof Jane Ball
Presented by Rachel Hollis and Sue Haines. Audio production by Alex Rees. Assistant producer Jelena Sofronijevic. Music: ‘Snappy’ by Jonathan Boyle under licence from premiumbeat.com. Nursing Matters is a Podmasters Production for the RCN.
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The nursing workforce is growing, but not fast enough. What does that mean for a profession that’s under increasing pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond? Special guest Professor Jane Ball, Professor of Nursing Workforce Policy at Southampton University, joins us to talk about how nursing can recruit and retain the numbers needed – and why the Government needs to go beyond its target of 50,000 recruits to head off a growing crisis.
Nursing Matters is presented by PNC chair Rachel Hollis and Dr Sue Haines. We’d love to hear your questions. Tweet them to @theRCN tagged #NursingMatters
• “Even before COVID we were desperately short of nurses… And when there’s fewer nurses, more patients die of avoidable conditions.” – Prof Jane Ball
• “With the crisis in staffing we will need to create multiple routes into the profession.” – Sue Haines
• “The system just doesn’t want to hear that it needs more nurses” – Prof Jane Ball
Presented by Rachel Hollis and Sue Haines. Audio production by Alex Rees. Assistant producer Jelena Sofronijevic. Music: ‘Snappy’ by Jonathan Boyle under licence from premiumbeat.com. Nursing Matters is a Podmasters Production for the RCN.
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