Government pledge to recruit 50,000 nurses a ‘pipe dream’, RCN says
NURSING leaders have ridiculed a government claim that it has honoured an election pledge to recruit 50,000 new nurses to the NHS.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the commitment, which was made in the Conservatives’ 2019 general election manifesto, “remains a pipe dream.”
The Department of Health and Social Care claimed this week that it had reached its recruitment target of 50,000.
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