Nurse numbers may fall as 20 years of constraint replace decades of growth

For decades, NHS real growth expenditure has been on average 4 per cent p.a. Current planned expenditure to 2015 is set at 0.1 per cent real growth p.a, and there could be budgetary constraint even after 2015. This could lead to a slowdown or reversal of past trends for annual increases in numbers of nurses employed.

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