Responding to the new NHS Providers’ 'Achieving value for money' report, RCN Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said:
“This report highlights just how hard NHS staff are working to deliver for patients, but also the terrible levels of burnout they face. It is right to celebrate the innovation taking place in our health service, but we cannot lose sight of staff shortages, which are the fundamental problem holding service productivity back.
“Nursing staff are clinical leaders and key to solving the health service’s problems, but the real worry is that the next government simply asks them to continue doing more with less.
“Concerted action to boost recruitment into the profession is essential to providing excellent patient care, as are measures to stop experienced and highly skilled nurses leaving. A fair pay offer must be a priority for the new prime minister this summer.”
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