'Training more nurses is only answer to erisis'

摘要

The post-Francis emphasis on adequate numbers of nurses to provide safe care has been a good thing, as we've often said in this magazine. However, the scramble to employ enough nurses to achieve safe staff levels and skill mix has been a challenge for many trusts.To achieve numbers that look healthy enough to publish on the NHS Choices website, trusts from across the UK are relying on huge increases in the use of expensive agency staff (page 4) or recruiting from overseas (page 2) because there simply aren't enough homegrown nurses to meet demand.