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| Zoe Green says it is unethical to expect students to pay almost £10,000 and have little prospect of finding work, while the NHS continues to hire staff from abroad | Zoe Green says it is unethical to expect students to pay almost £10,000 and have little prospect of finding work, while the NHS continues to hire staff from abroad |
| As a second-year midwifery student, I have been told by the NHS trust where I am placed that there will not be any jobs at the end of my three-year training due to high levels of international recruitment. I wrote to Wes Streeting’s health department back in October with my concerns and was told that “decisions about recruitment are matters for individual NHS trusts”. I was therefore intrigued to read his remarks in your report (Post-Brexit reliance on NHS staff from ‘red list’ countries is unethical, Streeting says, 21 March). | As a second-year midwifery student, I have been told by the NHS trust where I am placed that there will not be any jobs at the end of my three-year training due to high levels of international recruitment. I wrote to Wes Streeting’s health department back in October with my concerns and was told that “decisions about recruitment are matters for individual NHS trusts”. I was therefore intrigued to read his remarks in your report (Post-Brexit reliance on NHS staff from ‘red list’ countries is unethical, Streeting says, 21 March). |
| It may well be unethical to poach staff from red-list countries, but it is also most definitely unethical for midwifery students to pay £9,535 a year for three years, work 2,300 unpaid hours to qualify in a much-needed role (we are told), and then have little prospect of employment. Zoe GreenLondon | |
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