At this crucial hour of the pandemic, it is a fact that the world needs skilled and dedicated health personnel. At the same time, there have been standards of recruitment issued by the UK government to recruitment agencies.
The Sole Aim of the International Recruitment
With a mission to ensure that high standards of practice is promoted in the field of International recruitment and the employment of health and social care personnel, all recruitment agencies have to undertake the recruitment process in accordance with the principles . The international recruitment rules will ensure fairness of employment and transparency of the whole process in ease.
Alongside, it will ensure that workforce support and social care system sustainability is taken care of, under the guidance and cooperation of international recruitments.
Who cannot be recruited as per the latest ‘active international recruitment’?
According to this, people from low and lower middle income countries should not be recruited to the UK hospitals. With this update in consideration, we thought it was best that nurses stay updated on what is the right code of International Recruitment to the UK for International nurses. Certain countries have been placed into the red list of countries. As per this, recruitment agencies are not permitted to recruit from the below listed countries. Red countries from where active recruitment is not permitted
Afghanistan
Angola
Bangladesh
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Côte d’Ivoire
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
The Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti
Kiribati
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Federated States of Micronesia
Mozambique
Nepal
Niger
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Uganda
Vanuatu
Yemen
Presently, this Health Workforce Support and Safeguard list includes 47 countries and over time this could increase or decrease. They have listed the countries based on the fact that they have UHC service coverage index. This means that these countries have an index below 50 and also their healthcare population (which includes midwives, nurses of various departments and also doctors of various specialties) is much below the global medical care population.
Will recruitment take place from these countries?
In a situation, when there is an agreement undertaken, then recruitment from any of the above listed countries could happen. In case there is a government-to-government agreement with a country placed in the red list, then that country could be moved into the amber list and recruitment could happen. But , as of now, no countries have been moved from red to amber.
The list is said to be updated every three years based on the reports of health and progress formulated as per the WHO Global Code implementation to the World Health Assembly.
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