Employment of Nurses
The National Health Service is the provider of almost all healthcare in the United Kingdom, and employs the vast majority of UK nurses and midwives which number 386,000 according to the Department of Health.
The nursing staff is split into two main groups:
- Non-registered staff
- - e.g. clinical support workers and healthcare assistants.
- Registered staff (split into four further groups)
- - First level nurses.
- - Second level nurses.
- - Specialist nurses.
- - Managers.
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