Nurses and midwives looking to register in the UK will be able to take a new occupational language test designed specifically for healthcare professionals from next month. Under the changes that come ...

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has “significantly” increased its test centre provision for nurses from overseas and those returning to practice, it has been announced. The nursing regulator said ...

The introduction of an alternative language test to check foreign nurses’ communication skills could occur “within weeks” following an “overwhelmingly positive” response to a consultation on the ...

Concerns have been raised that the health service could become over reliant on nurses and midwives from overseas, after figures showed a big surge in new joiners to the register who trained abroad. In ...

BMJ OnExamination, a leading provider of medical revision resources, is supporting adult field nurses seeking employment in the UK to prepare for the part 1 Test of Competence exam set by the Nursing ...

UNIONS blamed Labour’s “hostile” immigration reforms yesterday for a near 50 per cent drop in international recruitment for nursing and midwifery. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has revealed ...

At least 16,156 nurses and midwives trained in Nigeria have been licensed to practise in the United Kingdom between 2017 and ...

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Britain recruited a record number of international nurses in the last financial year to plug hospital staffing shortages, with as many as 10% coming from so-called "red-list ...

THE Royal Bolton Hospital is facing a nursing crisis this winter after struggling to bring in international recruits. Health chiefs say they tried to bring in 140 nurses during a recent recruitment ...