Neil Gray: We are making nursing and midwifery as attractive as possible #news #nursing #midwifery

A Scottish nursing union is calling for urgent action to stop nurses who are “at breaking point” from fleeing the profession.

Royal College of Nursing Scotland said the nursing workforce crisis is showing little sign of improvement after publishing the third instalment of The Nursing Workforce in Scotland report.

In the year up to December 2023, NHS Scotland figures showed the number of nurses rose from 61,567 whole time equivalent (WTE) staff to 63,605.

But vacancies in the field still remain high, with 3,961.8 WTE posts still unfilled as of the end of last year – a drop from the peak of more than 6,500 in December 2021, but still higher than before the pandemic.

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