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Radio Shropshire,7 mins

Shropshire Consultant Mark Cheetham explains the current staff shortage crisis within the NHS

Jim Hawkins

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Jim Hawkins speaks to Consultant Mark Cheetham from the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Patient safety is being put at a serious risk due to the large number of unfilled NHS job vacancies according to a cross-party report by MPs - which says England is now short of 12,000 hospital doctors and more than 50,000 nurses and midwives

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