Crisis in Care: Two-Thirds of Migrant Nurses Consider Leaving the UK Amid Cost-of-Living Pressures – UKColumn News
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The nursing recruitment problem is due to the fact it’s cheaper to import nurses from poor countries than to educate them in the UK. If the government offered to pay student nurses their teaching fees and money towards the cost of living, as it used to be for university students, more people would go into the profession.
‘As it normally takes 3 years to train a registered nurse in the UK, active international recruitment has long been regarded as a quick fix to addressing the longstanding NHS nurse shortfall because it can take months rather than years. It is also cheaper as the cost of training is borne by the nurses themselves or governments of other countries. OECD data suggest that the number of nurses trained per capita in the UK in 2020 was substantially lower than in many comparable countries, such as Australia and the US.’