The UK National Health Service (NHS) faces difficulties recruiting as we head into a winter of swine flu.
1 in 10 NHS positions are unfilled and health care trusts are having to spend tens of thousands of extra pounds on agency staff.
Even short term vacancies put nurses under pressure in excess of the high pressure they are aready under.
As staffing levels are challenged, standards of care are bound to drop.
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