LSE Business Review:
The UK suffers a shortage of nurses
29 June 2016
The MAC recommends placing nurses on the country's 'shortage occupation list' or 'SOL': they are skilled, in shortage and - for a little while - it is sensible to add them. But we make this recommendation with considerable reluctance. It seems to us that the shortage is mostly down to factors that should have been anticipated by the Department of Health and related bodies. Furthermore, there seems to be an automatic presumption that non-EEA skilled migration provides the sector with a 'get out of jail free' card.
This article was published online by the LSE Business Review on June 29, 2016
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Related publications
A shortage of nurses?, David Metcalf. Article in CentrePiece Volume 21, Issue 1, Summer 2016
This article is based on the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report on nursing shortage
Related links
Professor Sir David Metcalf webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage