Nearly half of foreign NHS nurses plan to quit Starmer Britain

Bearing in mind we complain that doctors trained in the UK then slope off to other countries, I presume those countries that have the expense of training nurses who then slope off here feel the same way. Particularly if they are poor countries in great need of nurses and care workers who instead are here looking after people in the UK. We never seem to care much about those countries.

Tbh most foreign nurses will not get the same money in their home countries. There is a reason they come over here to work (thank goodness they do), so even if they want to leave, most won't.

The Telegraph just wants to stick the boot into Labour as usual. Its readers wouldn't countenance properly funding the NHS to provide good wages and conditions

Well as well as the Telegraph readers, neither do Labour give your first paragraph.

@HeadNorth

"The Telegraph just wants to stick the boot into Labour as usual. Its readers wouldn't countenance properly funding the NHS to provide good wages and conditions to the nurses we already have and are training."

Very true. Whilst the Tories claim to be tougher on migration than Labour- let's be clear that this only meant tough on illegal migration.

At the same time the Tories oversaw the biggest increase in legal migration because it provided cheap imported labour rather than pay a salary that would attract UK nationals to do the job. This meant that private sector employers such as care homes could still make high profits and public sector employers such as the NHS didn't get as much funding.

I know nurses who are being made redundant with ward closures. I know student nurses graduating and unable to get a job. It is riciculous but true, the cash strapped NHS is cutting nurses jobs despite mushrooming demand and nurses being on their knees with overwork and responsibility creep.

The Telegraph just wants to stick the boot into Labour as usual. Its readers wouldn't countenance properly funding the NHS to provide good wages and conditions to the nurses we already have and are training.

I'm a nurse, I think we've gone OTT with the international nursing programmes. Student nurses finishing their degree are struggling to find jobs which isn't good.

What was it before?

I have friends who are foreign nurses and for them that was always the plan, come for a few years to save money then go home. That’s one of the inevitabilities of immigration.

People wanted immigration to fall and it is. Some of us have been talking about the care sector and NHS but apparently fewer immigrants was preferable to functioning services. I think Reform are still rambling on about net zero.