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NICE recommend clinical vacancy rates should be at most 5 per cent. It is estimated the national vacancy rate is at least 9.4% (MAC, 2016).
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Trusts’ current forecasts anticipate further growth in the nursing workforce (NHS Improvement, 2016).
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The NAO (NAO 2015) has estimated that spending on agency staff overall (i.e. not just nurses) in the NHS in England increased from £2.2bn in 2009-10 to £3.3bn in 2014-15.
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"International recruitment has historically helped fill gaps between predicted and actual demand for nurses" (NHS Improvement, 2016).
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Since Brexit, nursing applications have decreased by over 90% (Telegraph, 2017).
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There should be 340,000 nurses in England, but 1 in 9 posts are vacant. In some hospitals this goes up to 1 in 3 (BBC, 2017).
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Currently almost 10% of the UK total NHS expenditure on nursing and midwifery is on agency staff (MAC, 2016).
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Nurses are the single biggest group of staff in the NHS.
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Agency charges for nurses increased by around 30% from 2012 to 2015 (NHS Improvement, 2016).
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The number of nurses coming from the EU dropped by a third last year (BBC, 2017).
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"Nurses now account for 31% of total spending on clinical agency staff by all NHS foundation trusts (NHS Improvement, 2016).
