Responding to the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s annual nursing register and HEE budget confirmation, James Buchan, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Health Foundation, said:
‘Nurses trained outside the UK have long played a vital role in delivering NHS services. Today’s data from the NMC again shows that the NHS is turning to non-UK workers to plug large gaps in the nursing workforce. Almost half of new nurse registrants now come from nurses trained outside the UK and the number of new international nurse registrants is at its highest since 1990/91.
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