For the first time on record, more midwives and nurses in the UK are leaving the profession than joining it. Between 2016 and 2017, around 20 per cent more staff left the register of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, than joined it – including a rise in the number of nurses and midwives who left before retirement age.

Since April, this number has continued to rise, with a further 2000+ workers leaving their jobs since we entered the new tax year. The total number of staff leaving the register annually has increased by just under 10,000 – around 30 per cent – in only 5 years.

A variety of reasons are believed to have attributed to these figures, including workplace pressures, the public sector pay cap, and a dip in the number of EU registrants in the last year.

With an estimated shortage of 40,000 nurses and 3,500 midwives just in England, and fewer younger people joining the profession – meaning the influx of new starters isn’t keeping up with the number of retirees – it is certainly a challenging time for our respected nursing and midwifery staff.

Quoted in The Guardian, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers, Saffron Cordery, warns: “The NHS is severely stretched and we need to keep and value our staff. This is important for the quality and particularly the continuity of care. We need to follow through on the investment in training staff by consolidating and building on their skills, motivating them and giving them reasons to stay.”

Our excellent healthcare training in clinical programmes provides essential, effective learning to our exceptional nursing staff, nationwide.

We work with an awareness of what is happening in the healthcare industry, and understand the multitude of practical and emotional pressures faced by medical staff on a daily basis.

By adapting to change – just as they consistently and valiantly do – we are able to deliver effective, empathetic training services to those who need it. Our experience and application of knowledge can be provided to individuals, groups, and entire workforces, easing at least the worry of learning in the busy lives of our priceless medical employees.