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- The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the health-care sector has lost nearly half a million workers since February 2020. Morning Consult, a survey research company, says that 18 percent of health-care workers have quit since the pandemic began, while 12 percent have been laid off.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/the-mass-exodus-of-americas-health-care-workers/620713/Why Health-Care Workers Are Quitting in Droves - The Atlantic
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Feb 9, 2022 · The proportion of hospital and community health staff who left the NHS increased last year, but remains relatively low. In total, around 140,000 of these staff – equivalent to one in nine (11%) – left active service in the year to September 2021.
Jan 26, 2024 · In quarter 1 of 2020, the increase in health care worker exit rates was dominated by an increase in workers exiting to nonemployment (78% increase compared with baseline); in contrast, by quarter 4 of 2021, the exit rate was dominated by workers exiting to employment in non–health care sectors (38% increase compared with baseline).
Apr 8, 2022 · Measures. The primary outcome was health care worker turnover, that is, exiting the workforce either through unemployment (ie, job losers or job leavers per BLS 18) or exiting the labor force. We examined transitions to unemployment (job loss and job leaver) and leaving the labor force separately.
- Bianca K. Frogner, Janette S. Dill
- JAMA Health Forum. 2022 Apr; 3(4): e220371.
- 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.0371
- 2022/04
- What Is The Scale of The Problem?
- What Has Caused These Shortages?
- What Action Has Government Taken to Tackle Staff Shortages?
- What Has Been Said About The Impact of Shortages in Health and Social Care?
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Although there have been recent increases in the number of doctors and nurses working in the NHS, the number of vacancies has also increased. Similarly, the number of vacancies in the adult social care sector has increased in recent years, as detailed below.
Several commentators have attributed staff shortages in health and social care to multiple factors. This includes: a lack of long-term workforce planning by the government and the NHS; Brexit leading to a loss of staff coming from the EU; concerns over pay; and job pressures due to increasing staff shortages. In November 2022, the King’s Fund publi...
In recent years, successive governments have proposed and introduced measures to tackle shortages in the NHS and adult social care sectors. These measures have included: commissioning NHS England to develop a long-term workforce plan; publishing a white paper on reforming adult social care; and approving pay increases for NHS staff. These measures ...
Parliamentary committees, health organisations and other stakeholders have warned of the impact of staff shortages on the NHS and adult social care sectors.
5.1 Parliamentary briefings
1. House of Commons Library, ‘NHS staffing levels’, 18 November 2022 2. House of Lords Library, ‘The nursing workforce: Royal College of Nursing report’, 10 June 2022
5.2 Parliamentary debates
1. Debate on ‘NHS workforce’, HC Hansard, 6 December 2022, cols 214–70 and 272–76 2. Debate on ‘Public sector pay: Proposed strike action’, HC Hansard, 1 November 2022, cols 306–29WH 3. Debate on ‘Nursing: Staffing’, HL Hansard, 16 June 2022, cols 1731–46
5.3 Parliamentary questions
1. Oral question on ‘Social care sector: Staff shortages’, HL Hansard, 21 November 2022, cols 1167–69 2. House of Commons, ‘Written question: NHS: Staff’, 3 November 2022, 68594 3. House of Commons, ‘Written question: Health professions: Vacancies’, 7 September 2022, 45052 4. House of Commons, ‘Written question: Care workers: Recruitment’, 18 January 2022, 102666 5. House of Commons, ‘Written question: NHS and Social services: Staff’, 14 January 2022, 98216 Cover image by rawpixel.com on Free...
Oct 8, 2021 · Almost one in five health care workers have quit their jobs since the start of the pandemic, and among those who stayed, 31% have considered leaving, according to a recent poll from Morning Consult. See why health care workers are leaving their jobs on our interactive charts.
Apr 11, 2022 · NHS Providers, along with more than a hundred health and social care organisations, have supported the inclusion of measures in the Health and Care Bill going through parliament requiring ministers to publish regular independent assessments of the number of health and care workers needed to make workloads sustainable.
Nov 2, 2022 · In this dataset, around 1 in 4 directly employed NHS employees (across all health care industries) are ‘lower paid’. This is defined as earning up to the top of band 4 of the NHS Agenda for Change hourly pay scale (up to £12.73 per hour in 2021/22 – close to average UK hourly earnings in 2021).
