The United Kingdom (UK) has announced the suspension of
international recruitment of health and care workers from Nigeria and 46 other
countries under a new regime of its updated Code of Practice (CoP).
According to Africa Check, about 5, 250 Nigerian-trained
doctors are on the UK books as at April 2018, a rise of 10 per cent on the
previous year.
The UK said CoP provide safeguards against active
recruitment from 47 countries on the WHO Health Workforce Support and
Safeguards list. The list of the 47 countries is included in its updated CoP
which sets out how UK health and social care employers can ethically recruit
from overseas.
The announcement which is contained in the CoP and released by the UK Department of Health and Social Care would help to meet UK’s target of delivering 50,000 more nurses by 2024
The UK in announcing the suspension said it aligns with
World Health Organisation’s (WHO) advice on ethical recruitment to promote
effective, fair and sustainable international recruitment practices, adding
that the UK will strengthen its ethical approach to the international
recruitment of health and care workers.
To align with the WHO, UK said the new code refers to the
WHO Health Workforce Support and safeguard list 2020 of 47 countries where
active recruitment can’t be undertaken.
This, it said, replaces the previous UK-held list of 152
countries, and removes confusion which can arise from the UK holding a separate
list of countries.
It warned that UK recruiters are not permitted to actively
recruit from these countries unless there is a government to government
agreement in place for managed recruitment. The CoP, according to UK sets out
how the UK can work collaboratively with governments from around the world,
forming partnerships to benefit health and social care workers, their country
of origin and the UK.
‘“The UK has updated its code of practice for the
international recruitment of health and social care staff to align with the World
Health Organization (WHO), widening the global market from which the UK can
ethically recruit. This will provide increasing numbers of international staff
with the opportunity to come and work in the UK’s health and social care
sectors to deliver world-class care.”
The affected countries include Afghanistan, Angola,
Bangladesh, Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo Democratic Republic of, Côte d’Ivoire,
Djibouti,Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, among others.
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