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BMA urges new health secretary to “get a grip” on staffing crisis as vacancies increase

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Data from NHS Digital show that almost 29 000 NHS jobs were advertised in England in March this year, up from just over 26 000 advertised in the same month in 2015.… Click to show full abstract

Data from NHS Digital show that almost 29 000 NHS jobs were advertised in England in March this year, up from just over 26 000 advertised in the same month in 2015. Anthea Mowat, chair of the BMA’s representative body, said that the figures showed that the previous health secretary for England, Jeremy Hunt, had let NHS staffing “spiral out of control.” She said that Matt Hancock, the new secretary of state for health and social care, must “get a firm grip” on the staffing crisis “if he truly wants to put the NHS on …

Keywords: bma; health secretary; grip staffing; secretary; health; staffing crisis

Journal Title: British Medical Journal
Year Published: 2018

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