NHS ‘unethical’ in recruiting nurses from short-staffed countries

Pons_Aelius , 7 months ago

Modern colonial resource extraction at its finest.

Why spend all that money training medical staff when you can ship in ones from poorer countries who you can also pay less than the locally produced ones?

Tosti , 7 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

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WhatAmLemmy , 7 months ago

Aid is for virtue signalling and giving money to your corporate overlords. Not for helping these countries or people.

autotldr Bot , 7 months ago

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The NHS has been accused of “unethical” behaviour after it emerged that it has been recruiting record numbers of nurses and midwives from countries which have serious staffing shortages.

Bringing in staff from “red-list” countries risked destabilising those nations’ healthcare systems and breaching government guidelines, said hospital employers and the Royal College of Nursing.

Prof Nicola Ranger, the RCN’s chief nurse, said: “The government’s over-reliance on unethical international recruitment from red-list countries has become the norm and cannot continue.

“While overseas healthcare workers in the UK are invaluable, the rise in joiners from red-list countries is concerning,” said Miriam Deakin, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers.

The NMC’s latest biannual update on the makeup of its register shows that growing numbers of nurses and midwives are coming to work in the UK from red-list countries, despite government guidelines specifically prohibiting recruitment from them.

Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, said that nurses from overseas made “a vital contribution to social care and health services across the UK … that we will continue to rely on for some time yet”.

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