Has there been a huge NHS recruitment drive?

[Jobseeker19]

The government needs to show what they have been doing this past year to protect the NHS.

When we had the HGV driver crisis wages were improved and visas were given out.

I would like to know what they are doing for the NHS.

Have they encouraged people to join the NHS? What have they done to retain current staff? How many work visas for overseas staff have been accepted?

They can't keep threatening the NHS's decline as a consequence of not following order's whilst doing nothing themselves.

It seems like they are conditioning us to expect the NHS to fail or to put up with shitting or slow appointments because of covid.

@Akire

I’ve seen lots adverts for care sector but when you click they all come up as mim wage jobs so hardly an improvement or incentive for anyone do it over any other time.

With private company community jobs not paid for driving time and insufficient time for that/visiting people.

Yes, I can't see that would appeal to a lot of people.

@Braveheart35

Eh? The bursary was reinstated in 2020

No it was not, that is what Johnson called it "reinstate the nurse bursary"
What he introduced was a £5k cash payment each academic year, the student still had to take out the £9.2k tuition loan and the mtce grant, which dependent on your parents income is around £6k or 7k.

Rent outside of London is 6k per year.

Placement costs are huge, my DD without considerable support from me, couldn't have done it, up front is all transport costs and paying 2 lots of rent, one to her main uni home and the other to where the placement is, NHS reimburse but those costs have to funded up front & it takes an age to get it back.