{"id":93426,"date":"2026-08-27T09:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93426"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:26:33","slug":"nursing-students-and-graduates-who-cant-get-nhs-jobs-are-left-stacking-shelves-in-supermarkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/nursing-students-and-graduates-who-cant-get-nhs-jobs-are-left-stacking-shelves-in-supermarkets\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing students and graduates who can&#8217;t get NHS jobs are left stacking shelves in supermarkets"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2b0erN.img?w=634&h=423&m=6\" alt=\"The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warns that newly qualified UK nurses, burdened with student debt, are struggling to secure NHS employment due to restrictive entry requirements and poor workforce planning\u00a0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nursing graduates are being forced to stack supermarket shelves as they can\u2019t get jobs in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS<\/a>, a union has warned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/general\/nursing-students-and-graduates-who-can-t-get-nhs-jobs-are-left-stacking-shelves-in-supermarkets\/ar-AA2b0h6h?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=d08fcfc0cfb34e2f925821c39fb6dc3a&ei=13\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nursing graduates are being forced to stack supermarket shelves as they can\u2019t get jobs in the\u00a0NHS, a union has warned. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Royal-college-of-Nursing.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93427,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93426\/revisions\/93427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}