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Left to chance

the health and care nursing workforce supply in England

Published: 14/02/2018
Publication code: 006 682
Following two reports from the RCN last year,we asked frontline we asked frontline nursing staff how the 40,000 shortfall in health and care affects their day-to-day care of patients. With those powerful testimonies still echoing - and being added to each day – the report explains in part how England got to this point.

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