Category: ONP Nurses

Visas, Immigration & Nationality

Shortage occuppations: 200 Filipino nurses to start work in Gloucestershire

Shortage occuppations: 200 Filipino nurses to start work in Gloucestershire. NHS bosses are travelling overseas to bring in hundreds of nurses. Why? Well because they can’t find the staff in the UK. Two hundred Filipino nurses will be soon be starting work in Gloucestershire following an overseas recruitment commute. Managers have travelled to Portugal and…
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New nursing standards of practice

New nursing standards of practice to raise quality of care

NMC chief, Jackie Smith, said today that “New system of checks on nurses will raise standards”. The new nursing standards of practice has been launched to improve quality of care in the nursing profession. NHS workers fear patients are being put at risk by a new system for calling in nurses to cover absences and vacancies…
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Welsh NHS has recruited more than 70 nurses from Spain

The staffing crisis affecting NHS bodies across the UK lead Welsh NHS to recruti more than 70 nurses from Spain. To complete a nurse degree and experience takes up to three years, as per that Health chiefs despite of the efforts of working with universities to train more nurses, found out on Spanish nurses a…
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4 IN 5 NURSES ARE FOREIGN

New figures suggest that, 4 out of 5 nurses hired in NHS hospitals in the last year were recruited from overseas. Many of them arriving from Portugal, Spain, Italy and the Philippines. “Nurse leaders accused hospitals of “panic-buying” overseas workers at great expense to plug staff shortages, while patients groups raised fears that care is being compromised by nurses…
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UK needs 500 nurses this 2014!

The UK needs Filipino nurses to replace its ageing nursing workforce. UK’s Centre for Workforce and the Royal College of Nursing said that 24% of its pool of registered nurses are set to retire in the next five years. According to Labour Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, Philippines Overseas Labour Office had received and verified job orders…
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