NHS Providers: staff retention must be a key election concern

NHS Providers has become the latest health service organisation to call for a renewed focus on the NHS in the lead-up to the June general election.

In a pre-election policy paper, the organisation has blamed a sustained financial squeeze on the NHS for creating severe staff retention issues, saying that most trusts now perceive this as their biggest challenge.

It said a combination of pay restraint, the impact of Brexit and the absence of a robust long-term workforce strategy is forcing service closures, harming care quality and leading staff to quit the NHS to take menial jobs.

As such, NHS Providers has called for new funding pledges, particularly in the areas of social care and mental health, as well as support for new ways of collaborative working and a public recognition of the economic value the NHS offers.

Chris Hopson, chief executive officer of NHS Providers, said: "NHS trusts want to see strategic solutions in place dealing with pay, the supply and demand of staff, retention and training. But they tell us they see no sustainable long term plans in place."

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