Dentists
As part of their national and international recruitment strategy, PCTs and GP practices from across Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority have successfully recruited 16 dentists through the Department of Health's Polish dentist recruitment initiative.
General practitioners
As part of their recruitment strategy, to address GP recruitment difficulties, Lincolnshire PCTs recruited 60 Spanish GPs with a further 21 due to arrive. This is the story told by the international recruitment project manager.
Consultants
Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) recruited five difficult to fill substantive consultant vacancies within its Trusts. The medical and dental workforce supply project manager from the SHA shared his experiences of this process.
Nurses
As a key part of their recruitment strategy, developed in partnership with Merseyside and Cheshire Strategic Health Authority and Edge Hill College, Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust recruited almost 50 Indian nurses. This is the story told by the overseas recruitment project manager.