INTERNATIONAL NURSE RECRUITMENT

Early day motion 22, tabled 26 November 2003 by Tim Yeo (Conservative). Signed by 69 members.

That this House is concerned at the findings of the three-year study International Nurse Mobility: Trends and Policy Implications conducted jointly by the Royal College of Nursing, the International Council of Nurses and the World Health Organisation; notes that the United Kingdom and Ireland are found to be more reliant on nurses from overseas than any other developed nation and that the United Kingdom is the most reliant on recruiting nurses from developing countries; further notes the negative impacts such recruitment has on exporter countries, and that these include the effects on the remaining staff, the reduction in both the level and quality of services and the loss of specialist nursing skills; and calls on the Government to ensure that all the private agencies that it uses to help in its recruitment of nurses from abroad have signed up to the Government's own code of conduct on this issue.

Signatures by party: Conservative 60, DUP 3, Liberal Democrat 3, Independent Conservative 1, Independent Ulster Unionist 1, UUP 1.