Nurses: Resignations
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission a review of the reasons that registered nurses have left the NHS in the past 10 years.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The Department has no specific plans at present to commission further research on reasons why National Health Service registered nurses leave their roles. We have already commissioned research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to both evaluate the impact of the programme to have 50,000 more nurses in the NHS in England by 2024, and to understand factors influencing later career NHS nurse retention. Both will encompass elements of the drivers of retention of nurses in the NHS, with the former having already produced published research on push and pull factors in nursing careers, which is available at the following link:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020748924002219?via%3Dihub
Summaries of the scope of the NIHR’s work are available at the following two links:
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