Asked by: Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many international nurses NHS Trusts have recruited in the past 12 months; and of those, how many have been permitted to work.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This information is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many of the international nurses who arrived in the UK in the past 12 months have had an Objective Structured Clinical Examination; and how many have passed that examination.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not held in the format requested. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the independent regulator of nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom and nursing associates in England. It sets the standards that registrants must meet to demonstrate that they are capable of practising safely and effectively in those professions.
Information on the number of professionals sitting and passing the Objective Structured Clinical Examination is published on the NMC’s website in an online-only format.