Matt Morgan: How to run a bath without losing water

After I turned 40, my quick showers twice a day morphed into a long evening bath. Perhaps this was to help me sleep and to soothe my joints—or to escape the clamour of a busy, growing household. I soon came to realise that there’s an art to running a good bath.The first step, and the most obvious, is to put in the plug to stop the water running out. The same could be said about the NHS’s Long Term Workforce Plan1: the first and most obvious step in any such plan must be to focus on retention, to stop doctors leaving the workforce. Instead, what we might call the “running tap” section of the report has 18 pages dedicated to training, with the word appearing nearly 400 times. In contrast, the “plug” section of the report—focusing on retention—has just 10 pages, the last of which has only 13 words printed…
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