NHS faces acute and growing staffing shortage, warns agency

Almost one in three paramedic jobs are vacant across England, according to the HEE.The NHS is beset by acute shortages of nurses and paramedics and is facing a skills drain, with staff quitting because of pressurised jobs and poor pay, health service chiefs have said.While the NHS in England has 40,000 more doctors than in 2012, it is short of 42,000 nurses, midwives and therapists, according to Health Education England, which has drafted the NHS’s first strategy in 25 years to tackle chro