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Workforce: NHS plan is doomed unless staff shortage is solved
James Buchan likens the NHS Long Term Plan to an overly ambitious new year’s resolution
15 Jan 2019
James Buchan
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Workforce: Irony of easing language test for overseas nurses
Barriers for non-EU nurses are falling to help solve a self-made shortage, says James Buchan
11 Dec 2018
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Workforce: England is falling behind on safe staffing
The government would do well to follow the examples of our closest neighbours
26 Nov 2018
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The extent of reliance on agency nurses points to the depth of the malaise in the NHS
Temporary staff now have to cover chronic nursing shortages, not just unplanned absence
06 Nov 2018
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Workforce: The problem that's bigger than staff turnover
When it comes to staffing, there's a larger, system-wide issue, says James Buchan
01 Nov 2018
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Workforce: collapse in district nurse numbers is happening now – action to halt it isn’t
Ministers’ ‘golden hellos’ plan to boost district nurse recruitment still hasn’t materialised
08 Oct 2018
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Workforce: Puzzling over the failure to scale up nurse education
England’s failure to increase training of nurses shows the profession has lost out
27 Sep 2018
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Student attrition targets shift from unlikely to illusory
The student attrition rate is stuck but targets to improve it seem illusory
13 Sep 2018
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Scotland's pay deal: the beginning of the end for a UK-wide approach?
A better pay rise means Scottish nursing is leaving its English colleagues behind
24 Aug 2018
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Nurse pay: UK unions need to follow New Zealand’s lead
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has negotiated an impressive pay deal
13 Aug 2018
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Recruitment contradictions only confuse the post-Brexit plan
Most leave voters want the UK to continue recruiting EU nurses, but how will that work?
06 Aug 2018
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Nurses face so many uncertainties over Brexit and immigration control
EU nurses in the UK need to know what their post-Brexit status will be
10 Jul 2018
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Nicola Sturgeon's offer to nurses challenges unions and employers
The more Scotland goes its own way on pay, the more it will have to handle its own processes
28 Jun 2018
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Workforce: New technology will not displace old funding issues
The prime minister may laud the benefits of IT, but the NHS has more pressing needs
11 Jun 2018
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Workforce: Offer to Jamaican nurses marred by Windrush
Timing is all in politics, says James Buchan
23 Apr 2018
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Workforce: What can we learn from the ‘pay pendulum’ of decades ago?
Since the mid-1980s, the Pay Review Body has been fairly successful in keeping nurse pay on an even keel, but it’s clear the system now needs fixing, says workforce expert James Buchan
06 Apr 2018
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Workforce: Immigration of skilled younger nurses keeps our NHS running
With ‘self-sufficiency’ in NHS staffing yet to materialise, the UK relies on skilled workers from abroad to maintain viable services
27 Mar 2018
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Barriers to overseas nurses and the illusion of self-sufficiency
There is no immediate likelihood of the UK achieving self-sufficiency in nursing, while the approach to international nurses has become incoherent
22 Mar 2018