For most of the last decade, international recruitment did a lot of the heavy lifting in filling nursing gaps across...
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23,046 Nursing Vacancies, Yet Newly Qualified Nurses Can’t Find Jobs. How Can Both Be True?
There were 23,046 registered nursing vacancies in the NHS at the end of June 2026. At the same time, newly...
The Two-Speed NHS Labour Market: Why Falling Vacancy Rates Don’t Mean the Hiring Problem Is Solved
If you only read the headlines this quarter, it would be easy to think the UK’s healthcare staffing pressure is...
UK Healthcare Workforce & Talent Market Pulse Report, Q3 2026
Q3 MHR Healthcare Workforce Pulse Report The My Healthcare Recruit UK Healthcare Workforce & Talent Market Pulse Report for Q3...
Retention Is Cheaper Than Recruitment in Healthcare. So Why Does It Get Less Investment?
The principle isn’t really in dispute. It’s putting it into practice where things tend to break down. The economics...
The Hidden Cost of Slow Hiring in Healthcare
Most of the workforce conversation in healthcare focuses on supply – how many candidates exist, where they’re coming from, what...
The UK nursing workforce is being pulled in three directions at once.
There’s a version of the current nursing workforce debate that treats it as a simple trade-off: cut international recruitment, and...
The Register Is Growing. Demand Is Growing Faster. So What Do We Actually Do?
860,801 professionals on the NMC register. The average age of an NMC registered professional is now 44 years and one...
New Grad Nurses Can’t Find Jobs. The NHS Still Has 22,000 Nursing Vacancies. Both Things Are True.
This is one of the more uncomfortable contradictions sitting in the current workforce data. Despite the NHS in England carrying...