1:30pm Thursday 29th July 2010
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.
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