RECRUITMENT OF NURSES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Early day motion 112, tabled 23 November 2004 by Lord Lansley (Conservative). Signed by 74 members.

That this House notes that a large proportion of entrants to the nursing workforce are from overseas and that the Government is aware that its own Code of Practice on ethical recruitment from developing countries has not been signed up to by all the agencies which the NHS uses to recruit nurses from overseas; believes that the Government's commitment in August 2004 to strengthen the Code does not go far enough to solve the problem; and calls on the Government to ban the NHS from using recruitment agencies which have not signed up to its own Code of Practice.

Signatures by party: Conservative 59, Liberal Democrat 6, DUP 2, Plaid Cymru 2, UUP 2, Independent Conservative 1, Labour 1.