article_snippet: An understaffed hospital trust has hired 200 nurses from the Philippines having failed to recruit any from the UK.
article_snippet: Gloucestershire Hospitals - which serves 612,000 patients – is also aiming to appoint dozens of nurses from Spain, Portugal and India over the coming months.
article_snippet: The trust, comprising the Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals, is one of a growing number using overseas nurses to plug severe staffing shortages.
article_snippet: Figures show that three quarters of hospitals are recruiting nurses from abroad and nearly 5,700 were hired in the last 12 months.
article_snippet: Gloucestershire Hospitals - which serves 612,000 patients – and comprises the Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals, has recruited 200 nurses from the Philippines .
highlights_snippet: Gloucestershire Hospitals has hired 200 nurses from the Philippines .
  
highlights_snippet: Figures show three quarters of hospitals are recruiting nurses abroad .
  
highlights_snippet: Almost 5,700 have been hired at hospitals in the UK over the last year .
  