Earlier this decade, a rise in healthcare demands and financial investment in nursing saw the United Kingdom rely heavily on overseas recruitment as a way to fill nursing vacancies in the National Health Service during the so-called ‘boom’ period [1]. However, the recent ‘bust’ period with its decline in workforce investment has caused a significant drop in international recruitment to the UK [2,3]. Stricter registration and work permit regulations introduced around 2005 have significantly reduced the number of non-European Union (EU) nurses entering the UK workforce. In this Policy+ we draw upon a NNRU researcher’s recent work on nurse migration from Malawi, a low-income country in sub-Saharan Africa [4] to examine the potential implications of these regulations on non-EU source countries and for the UK nursing labour market.
National Nursing Research Unit Policy+ issue 33.
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