This is a report of a working party requested by the Catering and DIet Committee of the King's Fund to investigate the state of diet therapy in hospitals and the effect on it of the acute shortage of dietitians.
There are significant recruitment and retention problems in nursing in the NHS. Nurses are leaving the NHS at a faster rate than they are being recruited. A review of the existing literature and research undertaken over the last 15 years has highlighted a number of apparently consistent themes in barriers ...