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NHS misses the recruitment boat for Jamaican nurses

Colin Cottell 24 April 2018

A recruitment drive to attract Jamaican nurses to the NHS, amid the controversy surrounding treatment of the Windrush Generation, has been labelled as “too little too late” by the CEO of a nursing recruiter.

The scheme is intended to increase the NHS workforce by 5,500 full-time nurses and help address the 34,000 unfilled nursing and midwifery posts across the health service in England. 

Mike Cooper, CEO of Trent Nursing, said that while he supported the initiative, it wouldn’t reverse years of...

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