They treated the sickest of the sick during the pandemic. Now a UK wide study warns unless soaring levels of burnout are addressed, the NHS could lose critical care nurses– and struggle to recruit more.
They found a third of its nurses had reported symptoms of PTSD and a quarter planned to leave their job.
A psychologist has likened the consequences for the NHS to the secondary tremors of an earthquake.
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