What is it like to live and work in the UK as a nurse?

you are maintaining you earned £45000 to £50000 a month?

a year 2010 - 2011

ah ok only you said in an earlier post per month!

Multitasking

Apologize for the political thread that hijacked your question.

I would suggest the following first -
1- your wife needs to focus on her ielts first. A lot of pinoy nurses fail this requirement or have to retake a few times before succeeding.
2- once she gets the job offer - (emphasis on the need to make sure both of you check that the employer is valid etc). Two of my cousins are nurses here in uk and they havent paid a single peso in processing their papers (ielts, visa, health check flight initial accommodation in UK etc were paid for by the employer).
3- once she is here, why dont you wait for a few months for her to get settled down? Both of you can do research in detail as you would know more - where is her work, how much is the salary, employment possibilities for you etc.

Goodluck!

Thank you Maley.

Actually we hope that she could work in Milton Keynes Hospital - or a neighbouring hospital.
We are not married yet and unlikely to do so - as she is already married. She can only get a divorce once she is a resident here. And only then can we get married.

Just been talking to a Filipino couple from Leeds. Both work for the hospital there. He was saying there is a shortage of Filipino nurses with IELTS 7. Recruiters go to the Philippines for the NHS and are finding it difficult to find enough qualified nurses with IELTS 7

I thought it was 7.5 but anyhos Ive heard whispers that the scoring may be lowered in order to get enough nurses here.

He said 7 but could easily be 7.5. Not sure.

Larry..You probably know this but just in case you don`t...If she can get a divorce in the UK,the divorce will not be recognized in the R.P and neither would her second marriage abroad.
It`s important to know just in case you ever decided to marry her and perhaps request a Balikbayan one year stay privilege etc in future years..
Of course,if you continued to stay as a married couple in the UK for ever it would make little difference what the Philippine law thinks!

There are plenty of visas to the Philippines, including the retirement visa, the value visa etc, and we've talked about it, and she's rather live in the UK.
Since I own a business and have a business partner in the Philippines I'm not too bothered about the visa you mention, but thanks for thinking of me.

It's 7......from the NMC -
Our current requirement is for candidates to demonstrate an individual and overall score of seven in the academic version of International English Language Testing System (IELTS), as outlined in my letter to you in February of this year.

As a responsible regulator, that continually looks at the suitability of all the standards we set, we have committed to looking at this standard and gathering further evidence over the coming months. I would like to reassure you that we are committed to working with our stakeholders to better understand their concerns, but at this stage it is important to state that this decision does not indicate that we feel the current standard we require - IELTS level 7, is wrong or that we are committing to a change.

The BBC News was talking about 300 Philippine nurses being taken on now in Ipswich

My partner passed last November her IELTS 7, and of course there are lots of nurses jobs in the UK - however getting her into the town that I live in is difficult. I am working on it.

I have two friends who are nurses and they work ridiculous hours.

One works 2 night shifts then rest for 1 day, and then day shift next.

The other works 6 days a week.

They do make good money though and they seem to like what they are doing.

There is a lot of demand for nurses (also carers and doctors).

Same here. Asawas friends are nurses in London and they are doing “bank”, trying to make as much money as possible.

Doesn' help the NHS coffers much does it!

Oh so that's what they mean by bank.

I keep on hearing them talk about "bank" but I never bothered asking them about it. Hahahah

bank is a common expression in the care industry--usually means a carer offers their labour to more than one care home--who can call the person in on short notice if they are available. often paid more.

my wfe intends to do it--she wants 50 hours a week--and where she is now have reduced her hours to 35-40. so a bank staff can earn a £100 for a night shift. probably double that in london.

I recall working as nurse in Israel doing 8-4 12-8 the same day, having a day off and then working the next day. Shifts were hard. There are agencies for nurses that pay much more - if i wanted before I retired i could earn at least £200 a night if not more outside London......