英國“護士荒”

英國“護士荒”

在去年護士就被列入了英國緊缺崗位的名單，據(jù)英國《每日電訊報》12的調(diào)查數(shù)據(jù)顯示，2015年每5名英國NHS醫(yī)院新增護士中就有4人是“外援”。近日，NHS稱仍需要15,000以上的護士來應(yīng)對這一資源嚴重短缺問題。

測試中可能遇到的詞匯和知識：

Inquiry 質(zhì)詢[?n'kwa?r?]

lapses 流逝[læps]

acute 嚴重的[?'kju?t]

collapse 倒塌，暴跌[k?'læps]

inevitably 不可避免地[?n'?v?t?bli]

locum 臨時代理['l?uk?m]

workforce planning 人力規(guī)劃

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England’s hospitals need 15,000 more nurses, says NHS （409words）

By Sarah Neville, Public Policy Editor

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Demand for nurses has grown so rapidly that England’s hospitals are now 15,000 short of the number they need, according to an official NHS assessment.

NHS Improvement, the health regulator, also identified significant shortages of consultants in emergency medicine and general medicine.

The report says the findings of the Francis inquiry into serious care failings at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust have driven the recruitment of more nurses. Some of the lapses at the hospitals, where it is thought patients died needlessly, were blamed on too few nurses.

The report says hospitals’ demand for nurses caring for adult acute patients in 2014 was 189,000, about 7,000 more than hospitals had been forecasting just a year earlier and 24,000 more than had been forecast two years before.

NHS Improvement says a significant factor in the shortfall in supply is the collapse in the number of nurses from outside Europe joining the health service owing to restrictions on international recruitment.

The number of nurses joining through this route has fallen by over 95 per cent from its peak of more than 15,000 in the early 2000s.

The NHS submitted evidence to the Migration Advisory Committee in September 2015 calling for nurses to be exempted from the restrictions and pointing to wider evidence of nurse shortages across the NHS. Last October, restrictions were temporarily relaxed and the committee is due to publish a fuller review this month.

NHS Improvement says the supply shortfall has inevitably driven up the cost of agency nurses. The bill for these temporary staff increased by about 30 per cent from 2012 to 2015.

Shortages of consultants are also highlighted in the report, with 73 per cent of providers’ total spending on locum staff concentrated in these two areas, it says.

However, NHS Improvement notes that reductions in the average length of hospital stay have helped to offset a sharp increase in hospital admissions during the past two years.

“Without this improvement, there would likely be a need for around 5,000 extra nurses at a cost to the NHS of about £250m at agency rates,” it adds.

NHS Improvement says it is now working to help hospitals reduce the amount they are spending on agency staff through better workforce planning.

It is also implementing recommendations from a review into NHS productivity by Lord Carter of Coles, which called for a range of actions including using the central buying power of the NHS to save money on procurement.

請根據(jù)你所讀到的文章內(nèi)容，完成以下自測題目：

1.Which one is not included as the significant shortage from NHS?

a. consultants in emergency medicine

b. consultants in general medicine

c. loss weight experts

d. nurses

2.Why patients died needlessly as Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation thought?

a. unprofessional nurses

b. shortages of nurses

c. poor sanitation condition

d. too few consultants in emergency medicine

3.When restrictions were temporarily relaxed in UK?

a. last September

b. January

c. February

d. last October

4. Which one is not included as NHS Improvement’s measure?

a. optimizing workforce planning

b. implementing recommendations from a review

c. reducing hospitals’ spending on agency staff

d. forbidding the central buying power

[1] 答案 c. loss weight experts

解釋： 除了護士的緊缺，英國健康監(jiān)管機構(gòu)NHS指出還有藥品顧問的緊缺。

[2] 答案 b. shortages of nurses

解釋：這些不必要的死亡被歸因于護士短缺。

[3] 答案 d. last October

解釋：去年十月暫時放松了一些限制。

[4] 答案 d. forbidding the central buying power

解釋：定位在文章后兩段