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Recommendation 16
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The Department told us that it planned to meet the commitment to deliver 50,000 more...
Recommendation
The Department told us that it planned to meet the commitment to deliver 50,000 more nurses by increasing the domestic supply of graduate nurses, widening access to nursing through, for example, apprenticeships, improving retention rates and continuing to recruit from overseas. However, the Department and HEE were unable to quantify how many nurses they expect from each of these different routes. HEE told us that its plans are dynamic and changing in the light of the COVID-19 outbreak, for example, to reflect an increase in the number of people applying for nursing degrees.40 NHSE&I expects to publish details of the numbers of nurses it needs with the second part of the People Plan, after the publication of the Spending Review.41
Government Response
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