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A paper which looks at overseas recruitment in the NHS and the ethical and professional issues which it raises. Bibliography lists 6 sources
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essential. This has been addressed partly through encouraging returners and partly through changes to pay and grading scales, but as EIRO notes the most controversial aspect of the governments policies
with regard to improvements in the structure of the health care system has been the expansion of overseas recruitment. This was, as EIRO states, a
"prominent issue" for unions during 2004; the RCN specifically mentioned at their annual conference the extent to which the NHS was becoming reliant on overseas recruitment. Since 2001, almost half
if the newly registered nurses in the country have come from overseas, mainly from the Philippines, South Africa and India. However, the RCN notes that although the NHS could not
have functioned successfully without so many staff from overseas, there is no guarantee that they will wish to remain in the UK or that the numbers of overseas staff currently
coming to the UK will remain consistent. Carvel (2003) takes a similarly pessimistic view of the current situation, noting that there is a drastic shortage
of nurses which is only being alleviated by aggressive recruitment campaigns abroad. At present, although the gaps are being filled by an influx of nurses from other countries, Carvel points
out that the increased globalisation of nursing and the possibilities of better opportunities outside the UK means that the current influx of international nursing staff could equally well become an
exodus. McCarthy et al (2002) in their survey of Irish nurses make a similar point, as does an editorial from the IMJ in 2003, which
emphasised the serious of understaffing and the need for aggressive recruitment. The RCN states that the "targeting of nurses from developing countries" should not be encouraged, and comments that
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