NHS ‘losing more nurses than it is hiring’

The NHS is currently losing a significant number of nursing staff, with more nurses leaving the profession than joining it.

Figures provided to BBC News by NHS Digital have revealed that 33,000 nurses walked away from the sector last year, which represented an increase of 20 percent on the number of departures seen in 2012-13.

It means that more than ten percent of the nursing workforce have left NHS employment in each of the past three years, with the number of leavers now high enough to staff more than 20 average-sized hospital trusts.

Of particular concern is the fact that more than half of those who departed last year were under the age of 40, with many nurses having to be taken off research work, special projects and admin roles to fill frontline gaps.

Janet Davies, head of the Royal College of Nursing, said: "The government must lift the NHS out of this dangerous and downward spiral. We are haemorrhaging nurses at precisely the time when demand has never been higher."

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