NHS staff shortage: How many doctors and nurses come from abroad?

[Northerner]

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) will soon begin a major campaign to recruit health workers from other countries to meet growing staff shortages.

Reports suggest a strategy has been drawn up to target a number of countries around the world, including poorer nations outside Europe.

One estimate in March this year said the NHS will need 5,000 extra nurses every year - three times the figure it currently recruits annually.

But what about the countries that it will recruit from - what impact will it have on them?

Where do non-UK staff come from?
The NHS already recruits globally to meet its staffing needs.

More than 12% of the workforce reported their nationality as not British, according to a report published last year.

The biggest group of foreign NHS workers are from the EU - 56 in every 1,000.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-48205445

 

[mikeyB]

When I was working in Psychiatry a surprising number of nurses came from Mauritius. That was forty years ago.

 

[Drummer]

I don't see how anyone could qualify to come here if they don't have an income large enough - or do they expect nurses to take on a second job in order to get here - and to cover the fees they need to pay to stay here, including the amount required to use the national health service?
My son in law has just become a citizen and the process was a long and expensive one, and was only started due to it being obvious that it was only going to get harder and more expensive as time went on.