Hello everyone.

[Doc Alan]

Oops, forgive me Joe ! But I share your concerns. I'm a doctor (retired) so don't pay my GMC subscription anymore ! My filipina girlfriend / fiancee will graduate as a nurse next year but if all goes well and she obtains her fiancee visa she will come to UK to be with me and simply have to accept care assistant work , because we don't want to wait another year while she works in Philippines hospital(s) , still with no guarantee of a nursing job here !

[happydoc]

Oops, forgive me Joe ! But I share your concerns. I'm a doctor (retired) so don't pay my GMC subscription anymore ! My filipina girlfriend / fiancee will graduate as a nurse next year but if all goes well and she obtains her fiancee visa she will come to UK to be with me and simply have to accept care assistant work , because we don't want to wait another year while she works in Philippines hospital(s) , still with no guarantee of a nursing job here !

I'm sure that your future wife will be most welcome in our nursing homes - some of these establishments do little to earn the name "nursing" from my experience. It may not be the high-tech nursing that many nursing graduates want to do but it is an area where real nursing and caring skills can make a world of difference - it is cardiac care in the truest form - all from the heart! Sadly many HCAs do not get the salary that they deserve...

Good luck to your fiance in her exams! I'm sure that she can combine both heart and brain to really show how good nursing can be!