Call for learning disability nurse workforce plan in England - Nursing Times
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A UK nursing charity has called for a national workforce strategy to address the 33% decline in learning disability nurses in England's NHS over the past decade, citing lack of public awareness and low recruitment. The report recommends government action to highlight the clinical and economic benefits of learning disability nursing to improve recruitment, retention, and career visibility.
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A charity has called on the government to introduce a workforce strategy for learning disability nurses, to save the specialty from “steep decline”. The learning disability nursing workforce has continued shrinking in England due to a lack of public awareness of the benefits of the role and low interest in the career, a new report by nursing charity RCN Foundation has found. > “We must utilise the…
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