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<p>NHS Improvement and NHS Employers have been working in partnership to deliver a
national programme of action to support National Health Service trusts to improve
retention of the nursing and clinical workforce. This provides targeted support to
trusts on key issues affecting retention, such as flexible working, supporting older
workers, and development and career planning.</p><p>As part of the programme, NHS
Improvement and NHS Employers have held specific workshops with trusts around flexible
working and supporting older workers, and they continue to publish a range of case
studies and tools on the online Retention Improvement Hub to support trusts to do
this.</p><p>Health Education England launched a national nurse return-to-practice
(RtP) programme in September 2014, which provides experienced nurses who have taken
a break or retired with training and a route back into the NHS.</p><p>The RtP programme
prepares nurses to return to the Nursing and Midwifery Council register, to enable
them to take up posts in the NHS, care homes, primary care or other areas.</p>
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