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<p>Capital Nurse is a National Health Service programme with over 90 projects working
to support recruitment and retention of nurses in London<em>. </em>The Capital Nurse
vision and objective is to ‘get nursing right for London’, so that London has the
right number of nurses, with the right skills in the right place, working to deliver
excellent nursing wherever it is needed. The programme is jointly sponsored by Health
Education England, NHS England and NHS Improvement.</p><p>NHS Improvement and NHS
Employers have been working in partnership to deliver a national programme of action
to support NHS 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 new starters and older workers, and development and career
planning. Trusts’ commitment has enabled a national improvement in nursing turnover
rates from 12.5% to 11.9% since the beginning of the programme (June 2017).</p><p>Around
1 million NHS workers are already benefiting from the Agenda for Change (3 year) pay
and contract reform deal agreed last year. The deal includes important changes to
pay and non-pay benefits to help support recruitment and retention of all staff, including
nurses, and boost productivity in return for additional pay investment.</p>
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