Danny Mortimer: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Director general for people at NHS England
- Quoted on
- Medical ethics & regulation, NHS & care workforce/staffing, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“The NHS is seeking to fairly balance the aspirations of UK graduates and the needs of colleagues who trained outside the UK, while at the same time advancing its long-term vision which ensures that more clinical care is delivered in neighbourhood and community settings.”
What Danny Mortimer has said
“"These figures… show worrying trends in how competitive social care pay and terms are in the labour market, and the risk that the care sector's growing reliance on international recruitment and its global workforce is undermined by changes in migration policy"”
Chief executive of NHS Employers · NHS & care workforce/staffing · 8 Sept 2026 · Social care nurse vacancy rates fall but reliance on overseas ↗
“Staff safety and wellbeing is paramount, and we want everyone experiencing any kind of unwanted incident to feel confident enough to report it.”
Director general for people at NHS England · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · Hundreds of thousands of NHS staff in England attacked and harassed, survey shows ↗
Where Danny Mortimer has been quoted
- Report warns of holes in health workforce with international doctors leaving the UKnationalhealthexecutive.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Social care nurse vacancy rates fall but reliance on overseasnursingtimes.net · 8 Sept 2026
- Hundreds of thousands of NHS staff in England attacked and harassed, survey showstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
Related media coverage
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