It’s hard to know where to start with such lazy s***e but if you think what you earned as an apprentice presumably many decades ago is relevant, I don’t know what to tell you. You also didn’t do 5 years training to get into the role and I’ll take a guess that you weren’t saving lives either.

Quite simply, if it was such a decent gig with so many amazing perks there wouldn’t be people leaving in droves and they wouldn’t be struggling to recruit new staff

I am probably just rehashing previous posts but my view is that it is broken and no amount of money can fix it without huge reform.
Those in charge generally waste the money and on top of that appoint more chiefs on silly salaries.
The Government should pay for all clinical staff training and only get any of that back if those staff leave their posts for whatever reason - there can be a "got to work for us for X years" clause in there or lose your training costs (pro-rata).
.Needing to take a degree course to be a Nurse is utter madness and that should be removed immediately.
Local works best and each Trust should be totally in charge of its area.
The money given needs to be spent wisely - but like every department in Government it is now.
The list is endless but it does need to stop being political and needs cross party support with the way forward enshrined in law so that it cannot be changed on a political whim.

They did rather shoot themselves in the foot when they did away with the bursary payments - this wiped out a huge number of older,married women with families who were prepared to train but need that bit of income to keep the family afloat whilst they did so.

My Goddaughter was one and so was most of the rest of her intake... and that's just one hospital.

The job of a nurse has been upscaled in the last few years so that they can handle many things that previously were only done by a doctor. The more simple things, like changing beds, pads, feeding etc are now done by health care assistants, who are trained on the job.