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"We desperately need more people to join the profession, but the reality is nursing numbers are going in the wrong direction."

Streeting said the health service would "need to work through with the medical profession what would be a very new way of working".

Pauline Buchanan from the NEU said that teachers had found "themselves once again as the lowest paid members of the profession across these islands".

Significant concerns remain, however, from some within the medical profession.

Someone who really got into the medical profession for the right reasons but has now become so jaded that she’s on autopilot — she’s zooming toward retirement.