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NHS opportunity for local nurses and other medical professionals
Sri Lankan nurses and other healthcare professionals will soon be allowed to be employed in the United Kingdom under a new agreement between the two countries.
This agreement recognises healthcare professionals recruited from Sri Lanka to the National Health Service (NHS) employment in the UK and will give them an opportunity to enhance their skills and explore best practices.
This is under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in healthcare cooperation between the UK Government and the Sri Lankan Government. Overseas recruitment will be handled by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE).
Under this MoU, the two governments would cooperate in the development and delivery of healthcare through the recruitment and employment of Sri Lankan nurses and other healthcare professionals, including but not limited to physiotherapists, radiographers and midwives, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The governments would undertake a recruitment project to develop a sustainable recruitment pathway for nurses and other healthcare professionals from Sri Lanka to the UK; intensify bilateral exchanges of policy thinking with regard to nursing and healthcare workforce development and best practices in the delivery of healthcare; involve professional staff and healthcare managers in the project, particularly in relation to the education and training of Sri Lankan nurses and other healthcare professionals and draw up an action agenda to implement the project–especially with respect to addressing any gaps in the entire process of the recruitment of nurses and other healthcare professionals.
It would enhance bilateral relations in respect of health care policy sharing a mutual commitment to observe fair, ethical and sustainable recruitment for the employment of Sri Lankan healthcare professionals in the UK and also consider the importance of ensuring well-regulated and fair migration through mutual cooperation and recruitment of healthcare professionals, ensure commitment to training and development of healthcare professionals recruited from Sri Lanka to the UK and recognise the importance of exchanging knowledge and expertise between the participants through cooperation in healthcare.
The MoU signed in January this year is initially for four years, and would be renewed automatically. It was posted on the UK Government website as a policy paper on May 9.
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