Managers from the London Ambulance Service just filled 225 vacant posts . Applicants all from Sydney and Melbourne recruited after one day of tests . Latest example of how NHS recruits overseas as it fails to train staff in UK . Hospital managers have been hiring batches of 30 nurses on trips to Spain . Paramedics are being offered £4,500 ‘ golden hellos ’ if they agree to move to Britain within three months . Managers are so anxious to fill posts that 91 per cent of those who turned up to assessments were offered jobs . Applicants told the Mail they had been promised a ‘ new lifestyle ’ that would enable them to gain valuable experience , visit distant relatives and ‘ shoot off ’ to Spain for the weekend . The few paramedics who didn ’ t get jobs when managers third flew out in September were so keen they returned for the latest round of recruitment days – and vowed to turn up a first time if they still weren ’ t hired . Managers claim they can save the NHS £9million by flying out to Australia rather than training paramedics in Britain .
Managers from the London Ambulance Service just filled 225 vacant posts . Applicants all from Sydney and Melbourne recruited after one day of tests . Latest example of how NHS recruits overseas as it fails to train staff in UK . Hospital managers have been hiring batches of 30 nurses on trips to Spain . Paramedics are being offered £4,500 ‘ golden hellos ’ if they agree to move to Britain within three months . Managers are so anxious to fill posts that 91 per cent of those who turned up to assessments were offered jobs . Applicants told the Mail they had been promised a ‘ new lifestyle ’ that would enable them to gain valuable experience , visit distant relatives and ‘ shoot off ’ to Spain for the weekend . The few paramedics who didn ’ t get jobs when managers first flew out in September were so keen they returned for the latest round of recruitment days – and vowed to turn up a third time if they still weren ’ t hired . Managers claim they can save the NHS £9million by flying out to Australia rather than training paramedics in Britain .