Nurses recruitment day judged as ‘a big success’
A special event for registered and trainee nurses took place last week which saw 37 new members of staff appointed into key roles at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn.
On Saturday 13th January The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn hosted their third open day in the past four months in a bid to attract more health professionals to their hospital.
The event, which was held at the Education & Innovation Centre, was attended by 68 people – some had even travelled as far as London – and saw, overall, 37 new nursing staff appointed into roles across the hospitals 33 wards and services.
Five healthcare assistants were recruited alongside 15 new nurses and many other attendees expressed their interest in joining roles for domestic and catering assistants.
Chief nurse, Pippa Street, said: ‘Our series of nurse recruitment events are getting better and better, proving a winning formula for registered and trainee nurses to spend a few hours here. They can listen to colleagues who will articulate just what it’s to be part of TeamQEH as well as the learning and development opportunities and many other benefits that we can offer.
‘I am delighted that we will be welcoming 15 new nursing colleagues to our teams across the Trust with so many of them excited to join our organisation and be part of our plans for a new state-of-the-art hospital, which will be built on the QEH site and open to patients in 2030.’
‘It really is an exciting time to be part of our organisation. In October we opened our newly configured Emergency Department following a £2.7million investment to improve ambulance handovers, patient experience and provide modern facilities for clinical teams to deliver urgent care,’ Pippa said. ‘Later this year we will open our new state-of-the-art Diagnostic Centre which will provide some much-needed additional imaging capacity which will in turn drive forward a reduction in waiting times for our outpatients.’
News of dozens of people expressing their interest in joining the nursing profession has been welcomed with open arms as in February 2023 the Royal College of Nursing produced a report which found that almost 43,000 people left the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
The report also discovered the number of nurses leaving the NMC register increased by 9% from 2020-21 on the previous year and increased by a further 3% in 2022.
As a result of this recruitment day being such a huge success, the hospital are hosting another one on Saturday 6th April from 10am-2pm.
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