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Registering with the NMC Nursing & Midwifery Council

Discussion in 'General Chit Chat' started by CatchFriday, Oct 7, 2018.

  1. CatchFriday
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    CatchFriday British Expat living in Alicante, Spain

    After passing ILETS 7.5 and OSCE Part 1 (She was the only applicant to apply to UK at the centre in Manila - all the rest were going to the US.

    Almost there - the process is though horrendous! So much red tape.

    If I hadn't phoned, she would still be waiting - pressing submit suggests that the applicant will register within 40 to 60 days.

    I phoned on day 45 days - some problem with her Saudi papers. She had sent through the propers papers, but they had not looked at them.

    So they are still verifying - there is a chronic shortage of nurses in the UK and she is queued to work in the NHS in my local town, she has passed the interview - but she is now in red tape.

    In Church today I met a Nigerian RGN staff nurse who works for Excel Care and told me he was on a two year Tier 2 work permit and was earning £44,500 a year! He said he worked a 48 hour week at £17.95 an hour x 48 x 52. Big money....... when I was a Band 7 District Nurse Leader in Fulham I earned something like that in 2011. I am now retired though.
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    CatchFriday British Expat living in Alicante, Spain

    I understand that the Ilets entry for written part is now 6.5

    My partner is now working in the UK in my local hospital, having received a three year residential residents permit. It has been a long slog to get this far, but the perseverance has paid off.
  3. Anon04576
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    Anon04576 Well-Known Member

    Have you got a link in regards to the written being reduced to 6.5?
  4. CatchFriday
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    CatchFriday British Expat living in Alicante, Spain

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  5. Heathen
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    Heathen Active Member

    Yes its true what the Nigerian RGN told you, take a look;
    https://careers.excelcareholdings.c...–-hunters-down-huntingdon/J3Q4LX6X3P4QLSS8SPB

    So anyone wanting a career change could do worse than looking at Excel Care..
  6. CatchFriday
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    CatchFriday British Expat living in Alicante, Spain

    Nursing in the NHS offers excellent opportunities for training, which the nurse I mentioned was unable to access. He complained that training in the Nursing Home was not on par.

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