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12.07.10

Nurses want out

Over 60 per cent of the 11,500 nurses polled in a survey conducted by Incomes Data Research and reported in The Nursing Times have considered abandoning the profession in the past year because of NHS restructuring.

This is bad news for the NHS suggesting that morale is low amongst many nurses and worse news for nurses because there really aren’t many other jobs out there at the moment.

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