Just 46 nurses joined the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register in April, dropping from 1,304 last July, according to a BBC report. The number of registered midwives fell by more than half compared with the same period in 2016, while the number of doctors practising medicine dropped by almost half. The NMC is pitched at an "academic" rather than a "working" level of English, and could lead to 90% of nurses from the EU being lost, added Barry Pactor, group MD at TTM Healthcare.
Just 46 nurses joined the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register in April, dropping from 1,304 last July, according to a BBC report. However, the introduction of English language testing for EU nurses is more to blame for the shortage of labour than the UK's vote to leave the European Union, said Claire Billenness, director at staffing agency HCL Workforce. The NMC is pitched at an "academic" rather than a "working" level of English, and could lead to 90% of nurses from the EU being lost, added Barry Pactor, group MD at TTM Healthcare.