Re your article on recruiting nurses from Nepal by Pete Pattisson and Pramod Acharya (‘If we leave, Nepal will suffer’: embattled hospitals fear impact of UK job offers, 14 March), the global healthcare systems face unprecedented workforce pressures, and international nurse recruitment and migration policy experts suggest this will continue.
As a Nepali nurse with almost 30 years’ healthcare sector experience, I think that both authors accurately and pertinently highlight the key issues and sad truth around the UK government’s plan to recruit nurses from Nepal. However, there are a few additional points worth raising about source and destination countries: the two dimensions of international recruitment and migration.
