Thousands of foreign nurses a year leave UK to work abroad, Campbell, 2024

The Guardian

Thousands of foreign nurses a year leave UK to work abroad

Denis Campbell

"Almost 9,000 foreign nurses a year are leaving the UK to work abroad, amid a sudden surge in nurses quitting the already understaffed NHS for better-paid jobs elsewhere.

The rise in nurses originally from outside the EU moving to take up new posts abroad has prompted concerns that Britain is increasingly becoming “a staging post” in their careers.

The number of UK-registered nurses moving to other countries doubled in just one year between 2021-22 and 2022-23 to a record 12,400 and has soared fourfold since before the coronavirus pandemic."

More at link: https://www.theguardian.com/society...foreign-nurses-a-year-leave-uk-to-work-abroad

 

There now exists a sophisticated global market in health care employment which the UK arguably started this in the 1950s and now ironically suffers the effects of as it struggles to outbid other more attractive employing countries. At the heart of the problem is massive undersupply of skilled professionals with the wealthiest countries especially guilty in not providing the training base and adequate pay and conditions of employment to ensure there are enough skilled health professionals to meet their own health demands.