job losses

The RCN conference at Harrogate is being reported in the news as saying that 22 300 nursing posts have been lost in the NHs over the last few years. Inevitably there are the usual denials by the Dept of Health but this whole thing rings true. But that's just a fraction of the picture. Along with the nursing jobs lost there's all the other ones including physio posts. Then there's the uneployment amongst physio graduates, which if it's 80 % for the last 2 years with this next year's graduates should be reaching about the 5000 mark. But rest assured, there's no crisis in the health service! Yea right!