Sussex nurses recruited from Ireland and Philippines (From The Argus)
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Sussex nurses recruited from Ireland and Philippines
1:30pm Thursday 29th July 2010 in
Nurses from around the world have been recruited to come and work in Sussex hospitals.
Twenty-two people from the Philippines, India and Singapore are due to start work at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust in December.
The trust has also employed another 42 nurses from Ireland who will start in October.
Hospital managers decided to look abroad after struggling to fill almost 200 staff vacancies.
Most of the new nurses work in specialist areas such as paediatrics or heart care, where there is a national shortage.
The trust, which runs the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, hopes the new arrivals will help it cut back on expensive agency bills.
Comments(8)
Asbo
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5:06pm Thu 29 Jul 10
dixie normous
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5:33pm Thu 29 Jul 10
Asbo wrote:they are already qualified, and the training in the philipines is to a very high standard, also english is thier second language. my partner is a nurse at the county, and she says that the filipino nurses are very good.
If the NHS paid a working salary they would not have to recruit from abroad. Once they have a basic nursing qualification after 6 months or so, they will return to their homelands and earn a decent salary. When will the NHS learn some common sense!
dixie normous
says...
5:33pm Thu 29 Jul 10
Asbo wrote:they are already qualified, and the training in the philipines is to a very high standard, also english is thier second language. my partner is a nurse at the county, and she says that the filipino nurses are very good.
If the NHS paid a working salary they would not have to recruit from abroad. Once they have a basic nursing qualification after 6 months or so, they will return to their homelands and earn a decent salary. When will the NHS learn some common sense!
TheInsider
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7:15pm Thu 29 Jul 10
My missus also says nurses are allowed to prescribe and carry out many other specialist roles which they are not allowed to do in the UK, which is a waste of some nurses experience.
Betty Blue
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7:46pm Thu 29 Jul 10
There does not seem to be the care from nurses there use to be. Nurses no longer want to nurse, they want to carry out the jobs that should be done by doctors. You see "nurses" walking down St James Street in Brighton in uniform, with a stethoscope around their necks. What happened to the professionalism and the pride nurses use to have?
TheInsider
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8:46pm Thu 29 Jul 10
She says professional standards dropped so far that she was depressed by it and moved to the private sector where patients are customers and therefore customers expect their nurses to be clean, well dressed, polite, experts, caring etc.
She dreams of returning to the NHS which is where she believes she should be but says until pride is restored, she and most of her friends will not return.
snaggybird
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10:08pm Thu 29 Jul 10
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Morpheus says...
3:09pm Thu 29 Jul 10