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EU nursing figures have dropped ‘significantly’
Official figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council have revealed that the number of nurses from the European Union coming to the UK to work has dropped significantly.
According to the figures, seen by Nursing Times following a freedom of information request, the number of EU nurses being admitted onto the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register dropped from 1,304 in July to 761 in August, before falling to only 100 joining in December 2016.
Conversely, the figures highlighted how the number of EU nurses leaving the register each month has increased slightly over the same period, from 257 leaving in July to 318 in December 2016.
When compared alongside figures since 2010, 2016 , in which the EU referendum vote and new English language skills tests for EU nurses has shook the profession, has been the only year in which there has been a decline in figures, with the previous six years prior to 2016 seeing annual increases to the NMC’s register of between 15 per cent and 28 per cent.
EU nurses make up approximately five per cent of the registered nursing workforce in the UK, with the NMC warning that decreasing figures were an ‘early warning sign’ of potential workforce supply problems.
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