The nurses we recruit tend to enter the system as Band 5 nurses but let’s not forget that once they’re here, further progress can be made up the scale meaning that employers end up with better qualified, more experienced staff that they started with. In those cases, everyone wins. One of our candidates who landed...
Author: Sarah Grant (Sarah Grant)
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Workforce trends within the NHS
For the last three years, the Health Foundation has published a report into NHS workforce trends and it’s always an insightful assessment of where we really are with employment issues within the UK healthcare market. The most recent report published last year was no exception and it raised some important issues that can no longer...
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How do we start tackling the problem?
During the recent election campaign, the major parties all raised the issue of the shortfall in nursing within the UK today. They all talked long and hard about the ‘50,000 shortfall’ and followed that up with plans for solving the problem completely … if only it was that simple. Well we now have a new...
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Meet the Nurses: Ramon
How long have you been working in the UK for? Just a couple of weeks, so not long. What top tip would you give to other international recruits? Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Make use of the support that’s provided to you to be successful. Nobody wants you to fail and they all believe...
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Let’s talk about it
When it comes to mental health in the workplace there’s a temptation to avoid talking about it, but the truth is we should be. Back in November we attended a health and wellbeing conference that specialized in mental health issues in the workplace and this piece here gives you our insight. It’s fairly obvious that...
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Meet the Nurses: Christine
How long have you been working in the UK for now? I’ve been here for nine months now. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long, But you know what they say about time and having fun, yeah that’s how I feel about it. What has been the most surprising aspect of your move to...
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A Christmas Wish List from MHR to the new Government in power
If you’ve been listening to the news recently, you can’t help but notice the wall to wall election coverage – and the focus on the workforce shortage in the healthcare industry. It’s a hot topic. The Tories have claimed they will introduce the “NHS Visa” whereas Labour have argued they will recruit an additional 24,000...
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Could the new NMC process be more expensive for employers?
On October 7th the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) introduced their “new system” for international nurses -announced by a press release, which sounded rather exciting for those involved in international recruitment. They announced key changes such as: Moving from a paper based to an online system Streamlining requirements An easy to understand guidance checklist A...
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How can I prevent any delays with assigning candidates a CoS when they have received their NMC decision letter?
The international nurse recruitment market is incredibly competitive at the moment. Many western countries are struggling with clinical shortages, and are offering increasingly generous incentives to tempt international nurses to their organisations. The majority of nurses are given offers before applying to the NMC to ensure their registration expenses will be covered by their new...
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The change from Restricted CoS to Unrestricted CoS – What does it mean?
In early July 2018, Tier 2 sponsors may have seen a message pop up in SMS – the sponsor management platform, stating that nurses can now be assigned an Unrestricted Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) in addition to a Restricted CoS. This change would seem to be positive: Although nursing was already on the Shortage Occupation...