NHS England is expected to employ over 300,000 extra nurses, doctors, and other health workers under a 15-year plan to tackle staff shortages in the health service.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his government is making “the largest single expansion in NHS education and training in its history.”
There are currently 112,000 vacancies across the NHS in England. Officials have warned that, without action, there could be 360,000 vacancies in the health service by 2037.
An undated image of an unidentified hospital in the United Kingdom. (Victoria Jones/PA)
“In the coming years, we will train twice the number of doctors and an extra 24,000 more nurses a year, helping to cut waiting lists and improve patient care,” said Sunak, who has made cutting patient waiting lists one of his five priorities for the year….