Brexit - Amount of EU nurses applying for NHS jobs drops by 96%

[Eirikur]

EU nurse applicants drop by 96% since Brexit vote - BBC News

I'm sure the £360M per week can be used to install robots

If you don't have private insurance yet, get it as soon as possible

[oscarose]

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...migration.html

[original PM]

Where do all these nurses get their training from?

And why not be a nurse in their home country?

[Eirikur]

Where do all these nurses get their training from?

And why not be a nurse in their home country?

From high quality European nursing schools, maybe people aren't sick so much in other EU countries, Brits are the fattest of all of Europe

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Where do all these nurses get their training from?

And why not be a nurse in their home country?

Hasn't nursing become one of those things that has been over academicised & many now consider themselves above hands on nursing hence the need to bring people in?

[Eirikur]

Hasn't nursing become one of those things that has been over academicised & many now consider themselves above hands on nursing hence the need to bring people in?

^^^ This

[VectraMan]

Hasn't nursing become one of those things that has been over academicised & many now consider themselves above hands on nursing hence the need to bring people in?

But doesn't that mean migrant nurses must have degrees too?

[Big Blue Plymouth]

But doesn't that mean migrant nurses must have degrees too?

Not for the present day equivalent of the SEN I shouldn't have thought so.

[shaunbhoy]

Hasn't nursing become one of those things that has been over academicised & many now consider themselves above hands on nursing hence the need to bring people in?

Many former NHS nurses now work through agencies. That way they get paid more.
The cost to the NHS (and hence the taxpayer) goes through the roof, and they backfill for the more menial work by bringing in cheap foreign nurses.

[northernladyuk]

Hasn't nursing become one of those things that has been over academicised & many now consider themselves above hands on nursing hence the need to bring people in?

Nursing is more academic because it is more technical now. A lot of the 'hand-on' work is conducted by healthcare assistants now.