Category: My Healthcare Recruit Blog

If recent pandemic problems have taught us anything, it’s taught that if we want a fully functioning, well run NHS that can cope with whatever gets thrown at it, then we need good staff to work in it. To meet that demand we undoubtedly need to look abroad for international staff to work alongside our...

We appreciate with the global concerns around Covid-19 at the moment, you are probably incredibly busy trying to plan and redirect resource. Of course, the day-to-day clinical requirements are quite rightly the priority. However we wanted to let you know exactly what My Healthcare Recruit is doing to support our clients and other employers like...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...