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Is it really vote leave territory to suggest that the government should find ways (free training and better pay and conditions) to convert some of those 1.7m people to nurses instead of depending on EU agency nurses? I don't see it myself.
The government can do all of that without making any changes to immigration rules. Why tie the two together? It's good to train people at home. It's also good if people want to come here.
NickCJ
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There are 47,000 nurse vacancies in England as of last week and as of April there were 1.7m people unemployed in the UK who were actively looking for work.
Is it really vote leave territory to suggest that the government should find ways (free training and better pay and conditions) to convert some of those 1.7m people to nurses instead of depending on EU agency nurses? I don't see it myself.
We've had over a decade of hammering public services through shitty pay and conditions and budgets. That needs to change.