"Maybe we need more nurse practitioners in primary care".
If we need more nurses, we should pay for more schools, raise wages and improve working conditions for the nurses we have.
We are told that scrapping the bursary will create more nurse training places – and that's fantastic, we need more nurses, but who's going to train them?
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The panel agreed that more staff are needed and Dr Ruth May, incoming nurse director at the regulator, Monitor, said: "In the post-Francis era, we have needed and will continue to need more nurses".
That's along with the charity's other findings, which include the fact that two-thirds of units need more doctors, and 64% of units need more nurses, to give them the best chance of saving lives.
"Overweight patients are a much greater burden in terms of mobilisation – that is, you need more nurses or physios to get them up, maybe to get them walking again after an operation.
In another, titled "We Need More Nurses," Alexandra Robbins warns of dire consequences in the absence of a larger nursing workforce: "The more patients assigned to a nurse, the higher the patients' risk of death, infections, complications, falls, failure-to-rescue rates and readmission to the hospital — and the longer their hospital stay".
In an interview with the BBC, he admitted: "We are going to need more nurses".
The government will announce today that the NHS in England will need more nurses and doctors who have been trained to provide community health services so it can cope with a growing elderly population.
