NHS faces ‘alarming’ exodus of doctors and dentists, health chiefs warn

Exclusive: Report suggests four in 10 doctors and dental professionals may quit health service by 2028

• Please help us': NHS workers reveal extent of workplace pressures

The NHS faces an alarming mass exodus of doctors and dental professionals, health chiefs have said, as a report reveals four in 10 are likely to quit over intolerable" pressures.

Intense workloads, rapidly soaring demand for urgent and emergency healthcare and the record high backlog of operations are causing burnout and exhaustion and straining relationships between medics and patients, according to the report by the Medical Defence Union (MDU), which provides legal support to about 200,000 doctors, dental professionals and other healthcare workers in the UK.