The UK will no longer hire health workers (doctors , Nurses, Midwives) from the following countries

April 12th, 2023 at 07:16 am

The UK will no longer hire health workers (doctors , Nurses, Midwives) from the following countries

Ghana is now on a list of 54 countries where health and social care companies in the UK shouldn’t actively look for workers.

In its revised code of practice for the foreign recruitment of health and social care staff in England, the UK government made the announcement.

The code says that health or care workers shouldn’t be actively recruited from Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, or Nigeria, which are all developing countries.

The UK government said in a statement on the NHS website that the countries on the list have a UHC Service Coverage Index of less than 50 and a smaller density of doctors, nurses, and midwives than the global median. (48.6 per 10,000 population).

The UK government also said that the list is based on the World Health Organization (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List, 2023, and that it will be updated every three years along with progress reports on the adoption of the WHO Global Code.

But the list doesn’t stop individual health and social care workers from applying to health and social care employers in the UK on their own, without being asked to do so by a third party like a recruitment firm or employer. (known as a direct application).

The countries placed on the red list of ‘No active recruitment’ under the code are Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia.

The other countries are Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Federated States of Micronesia, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Republic of Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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