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The review of English language requirement policy by the Nursing and Midwifery Council Enabled 12,000 globally-educated nurses in the first 12 months of the policy review to join the UK Nursing register. Amid nursing workforce crisis, thousands of skilled international nurses were eft in limbo, working as unregistered practitioners in…
I take immense pride in my role as a nurse and consider myself fortunate to have been a member of the NHS for the past 22 years. Initially, when I joined the NHS in 2001, I didn’t fully grasp the true value of this privilege. However, my experiences within the…
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has launched a new consultation giving the public the chance to have their say on proposed changes to the English language requirements. This is very welcome news, especially to a cohort of nurses who have been trapped in the preregistration for more than a…
Overseas qualified nurses, working as care support workers in UK. How we can we harness the expertise of this invisible nursing workforce? In December 2020, a report by the Health Foundation – Building the NHS Nursing Workforce in England – said the government will need to exceed its target of…
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