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Rachel Viggars: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Rachel Viggars
Strategic nurse lead at Staffordshire Training Hub
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Quoted in the press, across 2 topics since 7 Nov 2025
02 Quoted on · 2 of 29 topics
Rachel Viggars: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Strategic nurse lead at Staffordshire Training Hub
- Quoted on
- NHS & care workforce/staffing, GP access
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Jun 2026
- First quoted
- 7 Nov 2025
04 On the record · press
What Rachel Viggars has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- nursinginpractice.com
- pulsepcn.co.uk
Where Rachel Viggars has been quoted
- GPN school struggling to find practices to host nurses | Nursing in Practicenursinginpractice.com · 10 Jun 2026
- Disappointment as most GPNs excluded from government’s nurse pay promise | Nursing in Practicenursinginpractice.com · 11 Feb 2026
- Leading general practice nurse appointed to inform RCGP Council discussions | Nursing in Practicenursinginpractice.com · 4 Dec 2025
- Unlock general practice nurse potentialpulsepcn.co.uk · 7 Nov 2025
How we found the articles that name Rachel Viggars: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 2 topics
NHS & care workforce/staffing
- NHS workforce
- staff shortages
- nursing shortage
- nurse recruitment
- care workforce
- care worker pay
- social care workforce
- NHS long term workforce plan
Also searched with “NHS workforce” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for NHS & care workforce/staffing
GP access
- GP access
- general practice
- GP appointments
- primary care access
- GP shortage
Also searched with “GP access” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for GP access
Verbatim
“We need nurses up front and centre of those integrated neighbourhood teams, and how can we do that if we can't even recruit them to practices?”
“It is essential that the primary care nursing workforce is fully included in these reviews”
“It is a privilege to bring my nursing workforce expertise, alongside my wider experience in nursing and multidisciplinary practice, to help shape informed discussion and support work that strengthens general practice teams and enhances patient care across primary care.”
“To fully realise the potential of general practice nurses (GPNs) within the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) framework, we must embrace the 'specialist generalist' identity.”
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