NHS hires one in four nurses from abroad

One in four nurses had to be recruited from abroad last year due to the chronic shortage the NHS is currently facing, according to new figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

The crisis comes as a result of the cuts in the amount of training places in each year under the coalition government. This in turn has led to few “home-grown” nurses coming through the system.

Prime Minister, David Cameron, defended his record on the NHS during the leaders’ debate on Thursday evening and claimed that there were “more nurses, more doctors and more people being treated”.