Government to unveil plans to recruit over 300,000 new doctors and nurses in a 15-year strategy to boost the NHS.
The government says the plan will be revisited every two years to ensure it caters to developing needs across the health service.Nearly double the number of adult nurse training places by 2031A 40% rise in nurse associate training places over the next five yearsPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: "On the 75th anniversary of our health service, this Government is making the largest single expansion in NHS education and training in its history.
The strategy launch comes as waiting lists in the NHS sit at a record high, with an estimated one in eight people on wait lists, and more than 650,000 cancellations within the health service due to industrial action. A report on Thursday also found that staff sickness reached a record high in the health service last year, as the NHS lost almost 75,000 staff members to illness.NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard said of the new plans: "The publication of our first-ever NHS long-term workforce plan now gives us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put staffing on sustainable footing for the years to come.
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