With international recruitment of nurses a key priority as the NHS looks to address a staffing crisis, two long-serving NHS nurses who moved from the Philippines to North Tyneside have spoken of why they've loved saving lives in our region.
Both Charlyn Lawton and Jenny Locsin work at the Northumbria NHS Trust - which currently has 38 international nurses, most from Nigeria and India, awaiting visas which would see them start work this summer. The trust is also seeking to double this over the year - while it is not alone with neighbours including Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust also looking abroad for recruitment.
Charlyn is a ward manager at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Hospital (NSECH) in 2015, while Jenny is the newly-appointed lead nurse for international recruitment at the trust. Charlyn first came to the UK in 2005. She had previously spent six years working in Saudi Arabia.
