Nursing recruitment: a stark warning by Lisa Uttley

This article explores the growing challenges facing nursing recruitment in the UK following a significant drop in internationally trained nurses entering the workforce. It highlights the risks this decline poses to the NHS and the wider care sector, particularly at a time of ongoing staff shortages and rising demand.

The piece examines how tighter immigration policies and increased uncertainty around visa routes are discouraging overseas healthcare professionals, while domestic recruitment remains insufficient to fill the gap. It calls for clearer, more balanced immigration pathways to ensure essential health and care services can continue to operate effectively.

In this article, Lisa Uttley, Immigration Partner at Gherson Solicitors LLP, sets out why international recruitment remains critical to the UK’s health and care sectors and why sensible, well-defined legal migration routes are essential to maintaining a functioning healthcare system.

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Nursing Recruitment: A stark Warning by Lisa Uttley, Immigration partner at Gherson Solicitors LLP

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