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in for Victoria, welcome A recruitment crisis in the NHS,

with tens of thousands of nursing Hospital workers tell us

the impact it has on them. I am an emergency registrar and I am

concerned about the number of doctors leaving A and leaving the

UK. I am a registrar. I have just finished a night shift this morning

and what concerns me is the sustainability of the medical

workforce in the future. I am Joe Harrison, a senior staff nurse in

A, and I am concerned about the number of nurses leaving the

profession and the impact on the NHS as a whole. We will hear much more

from them later. Let us know your thoughts as well.

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First this morning, a recruitment crisis in the NHS.

More than two-thirds of trusts and health boards in the UK

are actively trying to recruit from abroad as they struggle to cope

Tens of thousands of NHS nursing and doctor posts are vacant.

The figures, obtained by the BBC, show that in December of last year,

the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland had more

than 23,000 nursing vacancies - that's 9% of the workforce.More

Comparable figures for Scotland were not available.

Many hospitals in England are having to rely on expensive agency staff

to make up the shortfall, and that is driving a financial

One solution is to recruit from abroad.

The figures show that more than two thirds of trusts and health boards

across the UK are actively seeking staff overseas.

The Royal College of Nursing and the British Medical Association

blame poor workforce planning, but the Government says since 2010,

more nurses and doctors have been working in the NHS wards.

So what impact does this have on those working within the NHS?

Dr David Rouse is an emergency medicine registrar and deputy chair

of the UK BMA Junior Doctors Committee.

Dr Reena Aggarwal is an obstetrician and gynaecologist

who has just finished a 13 hour night shift.

And Joe Harrison is a nurse from the Royal College of London

He is originally from Ghana and trained in this country.

You have been up all night working. Tell us about the impact where you

are working of staff shortages. Is it something you are aware of? You

cannot work in the NHS and not be aware of staff shortages. For

example, last night, on my Labour ward, we were two midwives short.

That is common across the country and in my hospital. In terms of

nurses as well, I see shortages of nurses on the wards during the week

and at weekends. In terms of junior doctors, there is a huge shortage of

junior doctors. There are gaps everywhere across the country. In my

own hospital last year, between April and October, I worked on a

rotor of 14 registrars. We were seven down. I was one of two full

time registrars working that wrote it. On top of my ordinary shifts, I

worked extra shifts between April and October. By September I was so

exhausted, I was so burnt out that at the time I was considering

reducing my shifts or giving up the profession. I had a holiday, some

sleep, I got some perspective and I remembered my vocation and what I

love being a doctor and I am still here and will carry on but this is

reality. The gaps are driving doctors out of the NHS, they are

causing burn-out and it is a real issue for sustainability in the

future. What about the impact on patients? That has huge impact. If

you have tired and demoralised staff that will have huge impact.

Yesterday, the real impact of having to midwives down meant care has to

change. Patients have too weird. We had women on the antenatal ward he

needed to be induced. They are stable but we had to delay that

because we had emergencies to deal with and because we do not have the

staff to treat those women or care those women. There are shortages

now. The NHS is facing a financial crisis and all hospitals are being

asked to look at their wage packets and hospitals are be choosing the

amount of nurses that are on the floor and that impacts care. We have

a triage surfers -- service in my hospital which had two full-time

midwives. Since December, there has only been one full-time midwives

stuff that so the same number of women are coming to visit us. That

means women with longer, it means it impact on patient care. It means

emergencies. You are a nurse in A What is it like for you? I am not a

political person and do not want to say this in a political way, but I

think, as a nation, if we are not healthy -- healthy, we cannot go to

war. The impact on the nation as a whole is that when nurses are dealt

a raw deal, they do leave. It is patients who suffer. On a daily

basis, are you aware of shortages which are marked absolutely. In the

space of six weeks we have had about ten or 15 nurses leave because they

are not getting the two is that they need to nurse the weight they want

to nurse and so, therefore, the best thing for them to do is to leave.

Explain the impact of that on the Department. It is patient care. That

is the impact that is terrible. The impact is terrible. You are not

given the resources you need to give optimum care and patient to come in

and get the brunt of these shortages. You work in A as well.

You represent junior doctors with the BMA, Sony have this overview.

What is a perspective from your personal experiences and why it is

happening? We are looking at emergency departments where the

number of patients attending is skyrocketing. We are seeing 17 or

18% attendance is now than we did last year and the year before. This

is having a massive impact. We have rotor gaps throughout emergency

medicine and we are struggling to recruit doctors G emergency

medicine. This is linked. If you look at the number of people

attending you can see why people are getting burnt out. This is not just

emergency medicine, business across specialities. Also in nursing,

physiotherapy and allied health professions. They are feeling the

brunt of the strain of being put on the NHS at the moment. When you look

at that and you think doctors and nurses are getting burnt out, they

are voting with their feet. Junior doctors, going forward from

foundation years, that is the first two years after qualification, 50%

are choosing not to go into specialist training and are going

abroad to Australia or are choosing to leave medicine altogether. That

is compounding the problems and making burn-out more likely. On top

of that would have the government imposing an unfair contract on

junior doctors. At a moment when staff are more demoralised than they

have been in decades. It is not surprising doctors are leaving the

country. We wanted someone from the government on but they couldn't put

someone up. They said their artwork nurses and doctors in the NHS than

ever before. 29,600 extra clinical staff since 2010, of which there are

more than 10,600 doctors and 10,600 nurses. You had to look at those

figures and think the government removing bursaries, making medicine

in accessible to students because... They are saying there are more

clinical professionals. If you reduce the number going in and

demand increases, and whether they have more doctors are sent there

are, we are seeing people leaving in droves. The number doesn't stack up

on the shop floor. It is like putting all wide indeed he knew

wineskins. The same problem will repeat itself. We saw this in the

mid-2000 is when nurses and other health care professionals were

brought in from different countries like the Philippines, Zimbabwe and

they have left in droves. It is the same problem. The government does

say there are 10,000 more doctors since 2010. There probably are, and

David has been saying the junior doctor contract has created such

negative publicity, especially in the last six or eight months that

medical School applications are done over the last two years and

statistics show they are almost 15% down. June 17 and 18-year-old kids

who have always wanted to be doctors are not looking at the NHS and

looking at the government and looking at the contract and are not

choosing to the medicine. You said you had to remember it was a

vocation at one point. Do you all feel like that? I choose to be a

doctor when I was four. That is all I have ever wanted to do. Over the

last eight or ten months with the junior doctor battle and we all

understand the NHS is under huge strain, we work on the front line,

we did this every day, we accept that, we take the job as it is, but

the current rhetoric is causing us to think again. These are people who

are not leaving medicine, they are choosing to stay with their

vocation, to be doctors, they are just not choosing to do it in the

NHS. That speaks volumes. Jason on Facebook, look after the stuff. I

have seen them stay beyond their shift. They are so busy they do not

take a break. I have seen them eat in the toilet because they felt

could the about taking a break. Look after them. Keep your thoughts

coming in. There will be more on vacancies

and recruitment in the NHS on tonight's Inside Out -

BBC One, that's 7.30, First, it's time for

the main news this morning. An Oscar at last for

Leonardo DiCaprio, after more The 41-year-old wins Best Actor

for his role in survival epic The Revenant and uses his speech

to call for action Thank you all for this

amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet

for granted, I do not take The NHS is struggling

with a shortage of doctors A BBC investigation has revealed

that most trusts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are now

recruiting abroad, as they try to fill tens of thousands

of vacant posts. A warning of tough times

ahead for shop workers. Almost one in three could lose

their jobs in the next ten years, according to the British

Retail Consortium. It says the High Street will be

increasingly squeezed by a switch to online shopping,

as well as rising costs from the National Living

Wage and higher taxes. The Raspberry Pi has become the most

popular British computer ever made. British astronaut Tim Peake took one

into space and total sales are now The new Raspberry model has been

unveiled with a faster processor Let's catch up with all the sport

now and join Olly Foster, and Manchester City were the big

winners to start football's The first award of the football

season was one yesterday but Manchester City. The beat Liverpool

in one of the penalties. A surprise lifetime achievement award. He has

been the city cop keeper all season. He led in five against Chelsea in

the FA Cup but they stuck by him and he saved three of those spot kicks.

Best actor award? At ten o'clock Michu you how Louis van Gaal threw

himself to the ground in frustration at Addicks from Arsenal. A lot of

the spruce of him lying prostrate have been doing the rounds. They

beat Arsenal. With Spurs winning yesterday, the title race is getting

interesting. I will be back at ten o'clock.