[Why do they keep bringing in foreign nurses?-ed]

Nearly 200 fewer student nurses are to be taken on next year, the Scottish Executive has said.

Health Minister Andy Kerr said the reduction was to avoid too many trainees qualifying for too few jobs.

The executive said 3,325 student nurses would be trained, a drop of 175 on this year’s total.

Mr Kerr predicted the executive would meet its promise to bring in 12,000 new nurses and midwives to the health service by 2007.

Nursing numbers are at an all-time high in Scotland and the minister insisted he was confident in the system that calculated the number of students who should be trained to meet future vacancies.

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[This situation was reported here months ago, see link below:-ed]

http://scot.altermedia.info/general/student-nurses-fail-to-find-work_869.html

[Why do they have an Overseas Nurses Network in Scotland?-ed]

RCN Scotland launched its Overseas Nurses Network group on November 12 2004. Over 100 delegates signed up to be part of the group on the day and reiterated a number of concerns RCN has been discussing with overseas nurses leading up to the launch.

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