NHS EXODUS

20,000 docs & 40,000 nurses quit pushing services to breaking point

-  NIGEL NELSON

THE NHS lost more than 20,000 doctors in 12 months despite already being 10,000 short of staff needed to operate efficiently 

And nearly 40,000 nurses and midwives also left in the year to April – up 13,000 on the previous year’s losses and on top of 46,800 vacancies that already need filling.

Huge numbers are understood to have left because of the mammoth pressure on the service still reeling from the pandemic.

The worrying figures from NHS Digital last night saw the Government under fire for putting the service in “intensive care”.