Nursing Times:
Is there a national shortage of nurses? Which specialties are mainly affected?
16 December 2015
Would it be sensible to fill vacancies by attracting extra nurses from outside of the EU? These are the main questions the home secretary asked the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to examine earlier this year. The MAC will report in February 2016. The background to this commission is as follows. The MAC analysed NHS nurse numbers in late 2014, reported to the government at the end of January 2015 and published its report in February. The Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI), which distils NHS evidence on behalf of the Department of Health, did not recommend placing adult nurses on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL). Occupations on the SOL get priority for skilled non-EU immigration.
This article was published in Nursing Times on December 16, 2015
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