UK news for Pinoy nurses

[deepred]

UK brings bad news to Pinoy nurses
The United Kingdom enforced stricter measures in hiring foreign nurses, including Filipinos, due to budget constraints and deficits incurred by the country's health service, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau reported Thursday.
abs-cbnNEWS.com (7/13/2006 10:10:35 PM) PRC confirms leakage in nursing exam
The Professional Regulation Commission confirmed Thursday that test questions in the nursing board examination last month have been leaked, ABS-CBN News learned.
abs-cbnNEWS.com (7/13/2006 7:01:04 PM)
for me who is contemplating shifting career and take up Nursing. On the other hand, i think its challenging.

[KeithD]

Try teaching, then you can enjoy wonderful things like;
1) Being accused of child abuse because you brushed against someone,
2) Getting stabbed for giving out homework,
3) Being arrested for assault because you threw the chalk at someone.
4) Being arrested for human rights for shouting at the poor lad!
.......

[IMONNA]

UK brings bad news to Pinoy nurses
The United Kingdom enforced stricter measures in hiring foreign nurses, including Filipinos, due to budget constraints and deficits incurred by the country's health service, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau reported Thursday.
abs-cbnNEWS.com (7/13/2006 10:10:35 PM) PRC confirms leakage in nursing exam
The Professional Regulation Commission confirmed Thursday that test questions in the nursing board examination last month have been leaked, ABS-CBN News learned.
abs-cbnNEWS.com (7/13/2006 7:01:04 PM)
for me who is contemplating shifting career and take up Nursing. On the other hand, i think its challenging.

Despite this news, thousands are still studying nursing. Britain is not the only country where nurses can go. At the moment US is one of the country where nurses are going as they are still needed with great offers too. Where can you find a job offer where you can bring along your whole family with free housing and as immigrant???

I've known people who at their 50's still took up nursing...imagine????

[scotsfiancee]

At the moment US is one of the country where nurses are going as they are still needed with great offers too. Where can you find a job offer where you can bring along your whole family with free housing and as immigrant?

Bring CANADA

[Pauldo]

Despite this news, thousands are still studying nursing. Britain is not the only country where nurses can go. At the moment US is one of the country where nurses are going as they are still needed with great offers too. Where can you find a job offer where you can bring along your whole family with free housing and as immigrant???

I've known people who at their 50's still took up nursing...imagine????

My wife is 32 and currently studying nursing in the UK. There is still a shortage of nurses world wide, and it appears the only place not needing them is the English NHS. And that is because they can't afford them, not because they don't want them.

Her ultimate plan is to go somewhere warmer and cheaper, and not so downwardly spiralling, when she qualifies.

I just hope she takes me and the little 'un with her when she goes

[andypaul]

Im sure the UK will soon need nurses again, it goes round in cycles. But any surplus places not filled by british citzens/residents will be filled im sure by EEC workers.

The day Britain allowed workers from the whole EEC full rights to work in the UK was the day where workers from countries such as phillipines and India will rue for a long time.

The local Hotels (live near heathrow) and the ones in london used to have huge amounts of phill/indian workers but already they are outnumbered in many by EEC workers.

[deepred]

Hi everyone,

Thank you for the feedback. I guess im still on the right track.

Bless you!

Cynthia

[scotsfiancee]

No hiring ban on Filipino nurses in UK, reports gov't
08/07 6:33:18 PM

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Monday said that contrary to earlier news reports, the United Kingdom (UK) has not imposed a ban on Filipino nurses notwithstanding the issuance of a new hiring policy that takes effect on August 14.

A report to Labor and Employment Secretary Arturo D. Brion by the London Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) clarified that under the new policy, UK employers intending to recruit nurses from abroad are first required to advertise in the UK their job vacancies particularly for "General Nurses," based on the UK's recent removal of the said category from its Shortage Occupation List.

"The UK employers, [including] both the National Health Service (NHS) or independent health providers, would have to satisfy first this resident labor market test before they can recruit nurses from abroad," Labor Attache Jainal T. Rasul said in the report.

Brion noted that a ban against Filipino nurses in the UK is non-existent first and foremost as the Filipino nurses performing a vital role in its health care system have helped, directly or indirectly, in the removal of the General Nurses from that country's current Shortage Occupation List.

The Labor Chief also noted the earlier pronouncement of the UK Health Minister, Lord Warner, that the change will make no difference to [foreign] nurses currently working in the UK.

"Thus there is no truth to reports that Filipinos have been displaced in the UK even as our POLO in London has confirmed that not a single Filipino nurse there has lost her job as a result of these developments," Brion said.

Despite the removal of the General Nurses from the shortage list, the UK has excluded the Specialist Nurses category from the new requirement imposed.

The Specialst category includes those nurses specialized in Audiology, Sleep/Respiratory Physiology, Neurophysiology, Cardiac Physiology, Operating Theater Nursing, Clinical Radiology, Pathology, and Critical Care.

Rasul quoted the projection of the UK's Royal College of Nursing that some 150,000 UK nurses are due to retire in the next five to 10 years, and foreign nurses are expected to continue to complement the UK's own nursing workforce into the future.

Rasul further said that aside from Specialist Nurses, there are other skills categories that remain in the UK's Shortage Occupation List and these are Midwives, Railway Engineers, Structural/Bridge Engineers, Transportation/Highway Engineers, CAA-Licensed Aircraft Engineers, Veterinary Surgeons, and others.

He said that currently, there are already some 40,000 Filipino nurses working in the UK's health care system, half of whom are already permanent residents or British citizens.

[KeithD]

More goverments U-turns....that the Amazon!!

[IMONNA]

I read that Social Workers are also in the shortage lists..

[deepred]

Thank God and thank you for the updates! Really need to decide before the school starts November.

[tetla]

yeah it's true UK has great shortage for social workers..been working in the social services before and was talking to loads of social workers...well if you want to have more £££ in your pocket and do literally less and just talk more then be a social worker... they dont need experience as long as you've got the qualifications..