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Indian Nurses for NHS
The nurses cannot be found in the European Union not because of Brexit but because there is also a shortage of trained staff on the Continent.
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is to recruit more than 600 nurses – mostly from the Philippines but also some from India – as an emergency measure to meet a critical shortage in Northern Ireland, it was announced on Monday.
The nurses cannot be found in the European Union not because of Brexit but because there is also a shortage of trained staff on the Continent.
Across the UK as a whole there is a reported shortage of 40,000 nurses but in Northern Ireland, the shortfall is said to be 1,500 – 10 per cent below capacity. Pegging nurses’ pay to 1 per cent increases has aggravated the problem.