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Table 3 Newly registered overseas nursesa

From: International nurse recruitment and NHS vacancies: a cross-sectional analysis

Country

98/99

99/00

00/01

01/02

02/03

Philippines

52

1052

3396

7235

5593

South Africa

599

1460

1086

2114

1368

India

30

96

289

994

1830

Australia

1335

1209

1046

1342

920

New Zealand

527

461

393

443

282

Canada

196

130

89

79

52

USA

139

168

147

122

88

West Indies

221

425

261

248

208

Pakistan

3

13

44

207

172

Malaysia

6

52

34

33

27

Singapore

13

47

48

43

25

Nigeria

179

208

347

432

509

Zimbabwe

52

221

382

473

485

Ghana

40

74

140

195

251

Kenya

19

29

50

155

152

Zambia

15

40

88

183

133

Mauritius

6

15

41

62

59

Malawi

1

15

45

75

57

Botswana

4

0

87

100

39

Otherb

0

0

0

0

131

Top25 Total

3437

5715

8013

14535

12381

Total foreign-trained

4891

7383

9709

16155

13629

Total UK-trained

12974

14035

15433

14538

18048

Total new registrants

17865

21418

25142

30693

31677

%Overseas from Philippines

1

14

35

45

41

%Overseas from Top25

70

77

83

90

91

%New registrants from overseas

27

34

39

53

43

  1. aCounts of newly registered trained nurses and midwives provided by the Nursing and Midwifery Council based on their register of qualified nurses and midwives. Based on the top 25 non-EU foreign source countries only (top panel); middle and lower sections include counts of all newly registered nurses. Data obtained from NMC and [5].
  2. bIncludes 23 each from Poland and Sri Lanka; 22 each from the Czech Republic and Saudi Arabia; 21 from Nepal and 20 from Japan in 2002/03.