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Sunday, 30 October 2005 08:32 | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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Scottish Ministers are to come under attack this week over evidence that their failure to fill nursing posts in Scotland has led to a massive increase in the number of staff from Third World countries.
Figures obtained by the Sunday paper Scotland on Sunday show a four-fold increase in the number of nurses from developing nations working in Britain since 1998.
Statistics from the Department for International Development show that in 1998 just one Malawian nurse was registered as working in Britain. By 2003, that figure had risen to 57. Also, only 52 Filipino nurses worked in the UK in 1998, but by 2003 that had risen to 5,594. There are currently 2,445 vacant nursing posts in Scotland, according to the Royal College of Nursing - 4.5% of the total. The figure is the highest for the past 10 years.
Critics will insist this week that recruitment efforts must be stepped up in the UK.
Fiona McPeg, of the Institute for International Health and Development at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh, said: "We are trying to have a health service on the cheap so we have high vacancy rates. The result is that we suck in workers from Malawi.
"We can't allow politicians to get away with generously offering aid when their actions aren't helping the underlying reasons for the problem”.
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