A workforce the size of the population of Newcastle needs to be recruited urgently to ease the “gridlocked” health and care system and to prevent serious harm to patients,...
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) says it is getting “tougher and tougher” to access care because of a massive shortage in the workforce.
There are around 132,000 vacancies in the NHS and 165,000 across social care, about the same size as the population of the north east city.