Many vital specialties, including paediatrics, emergency medicine and mental health, are struggling with severe staff shortages. In fact, the NHS shortfall could run to thousands of doctors.
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MISSING 335 ALLERGISTS There are only around 40 allergy specialists in the UK: if we were to match the proportion of allergists in Germany, we would need 375. Consider this: there is just one consultant allergist per 2 million people in the UK, according to the charity Allergy UK. And yet allergies of all types, including food allergies, are on the rise and NHS allergy services are unable to keep up, says Dr George Du Toit, paediatric allergy consultant at St Thomas’ Hospital and King’s College London. One in 30 children now suffers from a potentially life-threatening peanut allergy and it is estimated that 44 per cent of adults have at least one allergy. Despite the shortfall, for 2016/17 HEE said there should be no additional training places in this specialty — keeping the number of places at 12. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4726324/Shortfall-hospital-doctors-causing-devastating-problems.html#ixzz4nqdiPi28 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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