International nurse recruitment

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Dear Fife NHS Board,

Please could you provide the following information under the freedom of information act 2002

1. Number of international nurses recruited in 2019,2020 and 2021 respectively.

2.Names of recruitment agencies that recruited international nurses for your board in these years respectively.

3.At which band these nurses were recruited.

4. What is the minimum experience(in months) required for an international nurse in a hospital setting?

5.Does the board have plans to recruit nurses internationally during 2022?

6. Does your board hospitals recruit international nurses in New Graduate Nurse Programme(NGN adult)?

Yours faithfully,

Tom paine

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Dear Tom

Ref: FOISA request FIFENHSIR:787 International Recruitment

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(Scotland) Act 2002 (FOI(S)A). We received your request on 2021-12-09
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International Recruitment

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Fife foirequestfife, Fife NHS Board

Dear Mr Paine,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST NHSFife:787.

 

Thank you for your request made on 09/12/2021 under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOI(S)A) for International Recruitment.

 

NHS Fife has completed our search for information held in relation to your
request and can provide the following response.

 

1: Number of international nurses recruited in 2019,2020 and 2021
respectively?
2019 – Nil
2020 – Nil
2021 – Nil

2: Names of recruitment agencies that recruited international nurses for
your board in these years respectively?
Not Applicable

3: At which band these nurses were recruited?
Not Applicable

4: What is the minimum experience (in months) required for an
international nurse in a hospital setting?
NHS Fife does not detail a minimum length of experience in any job advert
or person specification within the Recruitment and Selection process.
Rather, these documents focus on the minimal level of skills and
competencies required to undertake the duties required. These skills and
competencies with differ dependent on the post advertised.

5: Does the board have plans to recruit nurses internationally during
2022?
Yes.

6: Does your board hospitals recruit international nurses in New Graduate
Nurse Programme (NGN adult)?
Although NHS Fife is unaware of the New Graduate Nurse Programme, all
nurses would be eligible for the relevant schemes aimed at newly qualified
practitioners subject to the criteria applied to the scheme (e.g. Flying
Start Programme; Group Clinical Supervision for Newly Qualified
Practitioners).

 

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Kellyanne Tosh

 

The NHS Fife FOI Team

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