By Jane Dreaper - Health correspondent, BBC News
Nurses from overseas have helped sustain the NHS. The NHS is Britain’s biggest workforce and experts say immigration has helped sustain it at many hospitals in recent years. The number of new health service staff who’ve come from eastern Europe is surprisingly small among the clinical professions - [...]

By Beverly T. Natividad, Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Nurses Association Inc. (PNA) has urged the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to remove a new course for “Practical Nurses” because it was misleading students into thinking it would qualify them for work in hospitals abroad.
In a statement, the PNA said it opposed the CHEd’s [...]

By Virginia B. Malay
MANILA, Philippines - When World War II broke out and the Japanese invaded our country on Dec. 8, 1941, all schools and colleges were closed. I was then a senior in the UP College of Education and was looking forward to my graduation. On the eve of Christmas 1941, Intramuros was bombed [...]

A crew of health recruiters back from a trip to the Philippines says nearly 300 Filipino nurses have accepted jobs in Saskatchewan. In a media release, the Saskatoon Health Region says its delegation of 11 people interviewed 150 nurses in Manila during the nine-day trip. They offered 105 nurses jobs in the region, and all [...]

MANILA, MARCH 10, 2008 (STAR) By Mayen Jaymalin - Saudi Arabia will hire more Filipino nurses, engineers and other highly skilled workers, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) reported yesterday. POEA chief Rosalinda Baldoz bared that Saudi officials have arrived in the country to recruit Filipino workers. Baldoz said Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) officials [...]