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An NHS watchdog has imposed a recruitment freeze on foreign nurses amid fears that workers could have faked documents to get jobs in British hospitals.
Nursing regulators admit they do not know how many immigrant workers could have fraudulently secured frontline health positions after faking evidence of their qualifications, experience or identity.
The freeze means that around 160 nurses are being prevented from filling vacancies in already stretched NHS units, while the Nursing and Midwifery Council conducts the urgent investigation into its own failings.
The astonishing disclosure comes after a week in which the regulator was heavily criticised by MPs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...erience-using-fake-IDs.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Nursing regulators admit they do not know how many immigrant workers could have fraudulently secured frontline health positions after faking evidence of their qualifications, experience or identity.
The freeze means that around 160 nurses are being prevented from filling vacancies in already stretched NHS units, while the Nursing and Midwifery Council conducts the urgent investigation into its own failings.
The astonishing disclosure comes after a week in which the regulator was heavily criticised by MPs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...erience-using-fake-IDs.html?ito=feeds-newsxml