NHS in England Nursing leaders warned, after a new analysis showed that the Z generation has become more tense and dissatisfied over time.
A new report issued by NFFIELD TRUST shows the rates of dissatisfaction between employees in the smaller health service group, between the ages of 21 and 30 – based on an analysis NHS Investigative studies.
The researchers found that between 2013 and 2023, levels of tension in clinical employees ranging between 21 and 30 percentage points increased. In 2023, more than half (52 %) said they had been confirmed through the stress -related stress in the previous year, compared to 38 % in 2013.
But the proportion of the older NHS workers – between the ages of 51 and 65 – who had the disease for the same reason decreased during the same period, and decreased from 43 % to 40 %.
The report also found that the percentage of young NHS employees is not satisfied with their salaries doubled, from 10 % in 2013 to 22 % in 2023. But in the older employees, there was a much smaller increase, from 11 % in 2013 to 12 % in a year 2023.
Professor Nicolas Ranger, CEO and Secretary -General of Royal College of NursingHe said the results were a “time bomb” for NHS.
“Young nursing staff are the future of the workforce, but those at the beginning of their career are the happiest.
“Today, a new nurse is likely to face severe pressure in severe services that suffer from employee deficiency, with stagnant salaries and little expectation of progress. In these circumstances, no wonder that is a lot of feeling less than its value and exhaustion.
“The number of people who leave during the early years of their career has increased, while applications to study nursing in collapse. The ministers need to realize that you cannot fix the broken NHS without making nursing a more attractive profession, starting with a rise in wages and a new investment for the development of the workforce .
“Thus you support employees to provide care in the way they want, and improve job satisfaction.”
“The traditional traditional beginning faced by the smallest employees has become more striking over the past decade.”
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She added: “Gen Z NHS workers now have to manage early professional exams and demands and learn the job in services that are likely to be exaggerated, in addition to the escalation of the cost of living pressures. The results we have reached are real concerns about the ability of NHS to keep its smallest workers, who are Only at the beginning of their career, but they are increasingly happy.
The future of health service depends on these workers. She is now policymakers and employers is now working on what shows us NHS employees about what the next generation needs to stay and prosper in NHS. “
A NHS spokesman said: “NHS has a great deal to improve the work environment for employees over the past two years and the levels of retaining our employees from the highest in more than a decade – with low rates of disease, absence and improving productivity.
“NHS is fully committed to ensuring the support they need, and the health service now provides more flexible work options ever, in addition to a set of mental health support available to employees, including access to training and luxury resources.”
