A spokesperson for the Royal College of Nursing, responding to the Prime Minister’s statement on public sector workers including nursing staff, said:
“There is little room for complacency about the increases to nurse numbers last year - they aren’t yet sufficient and are inflated by staff who came back to work in the pandemic. The level of unfilled nurse jobs is stubbornly high as 2021 begins.
“The government must do all it can to convince these professionals to stay and bring others in permanently, with an early and significant NHS pay rise and the real support nursing students need.”
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