Paul Muller, Woodthorpe Gardens, Sandal, Wakefield. Yorks
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WHY is there a shortage of nurses in our NHS?
The Nursing 2000 project took nurses away from the bedside and changed
their training from hospital to university.
Nursing is an apprenticeship and a practical vocation which is learned on
hospital wards, not an academic career.
Finally, the nurse bursaries have now been taken from them, and so now we
have 9,000 unfilled nurse training posts in universities, meaning even fewer
nurses in the future.
