Crisis is looming as doctors are lost to early retirement: NHS faces staffing ...
Crisis is looming as doctors are lost to early retirement: NHS faces staffing crisis after number of medics leaving the profession early TREBLES GPs and hospital medics are currently retiring at an average age of just 59 Total number of doctors retiring for any reason rose by 21 per cent in 2020/21 British Medical Association says exhaustion is to blame for rise in retirements
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The NHS is facing a staffing crisis after the number of doctors taking early retirement more than trebled.
GPs and hospital medics are now retiring at an average age of just 59, blaming high workloads and ‘punitive’ taxes.
Figures show 401 took voluntary early retirement or retired because of ill health in England and Wales in 2007/8.
This rocketed to 1,358 in 2020/21, according to the NHS
