Support nurses to stay on at work, don’t ask retirees to return

With NHS strike action and many nurses thinking of leaving, solutions to the staffing crisis need to focus on retention of overworked staff, not luring back retirees

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt recently targeted older, retired Britons, urging them to get back to work to help the UK economy.

The former health secretary was quoted as saying that life for those who have given up paid work in their fifties ‘doesn't just have to be about going to the golf course’. The reason for this anti-golf statement is all too obvious: the UK economy is in a poor state.

Concern over increasing the so-called low ‘participation rate’

The International Monetary Fund recently projected that, of the