In what will come as a big relief to Indian nurses working in Britain, the government has included nursing as a profession in shortage occupation list.
This means that the 30,000 overseas nurses who faced the axe under new immigration rules, including thousands from India, would not be thrown out of UK.
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) had earlier announced that according to new rules that were set to come into practice, a nurse can stay in the UK only if she or he earns a minimum of £35,000 a year – which is the salary of a senior nurse. Details