NHS: Nurse Recruitment Debate
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Lord Grocott
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NHS: Nurse Recruitment
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Lord Kamall (Con)
My noble friend makes a valuable point about the cost of agency nurses, which is why we have the goal of recruiting 50,000 nurses. We are looking at completely different pathways to ensure that we can encourage people into nursing. I do not have the statistics with me, but I will write to my noble friend.
Lord Grocott (Lab)
The Minister referred to ethical recruitment of health service professionals from overseas. Can he explain to us precisely what he means by ethical recruitment from overseas?