TENS of thousands of nurses are quitting the NHS as their health and personal lives suffer.
More than 160,000 have left for reasons other than retirement in just eight years, analysis reveals.
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From June 2010 until June last year 200,586 nurses left the NHS.
Of that number 163,094 were not retiring.
For all staff, resignations because of a poor work-life balance are up more than any other reason.
In 2011/12, 6,669 left for a better life, rising 169 per cent to 18,013 in 2017/18.
In total the number of resignations for any reason shot up from 74,287 in 2011/12 to 114,870 in 2017/18.
And the number of voluntary resignations for health reasons has doubled from 2,126 in 2011/12 to 4,234 in 2017/18.
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The data, analysed by Labour, shows doctors were most likely to leave last year, with 14.6 per cent going, followed by nurses and health visitors (10.7 per cent) and midwives (10.6).
Last week a report warned the NHS is at crisis point and unable to train enough GPs and nurses.
In a speech at the Institute for Public Policy Research today, Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth will say: “A Labour government will invest in NHS staff.”
