The code of practice for international recruitment of healthcare personnel is specifically aimed at healthcare organisations based in England when recruiting overseas nationals.
In recognition of the important role that migrant workers play in the delivery of health and care services in the UK, the UK Government is committed to ensuring that employers only recruit from overseas in an ethically responsible manner.
As the government department responsible for implementing the code of practice, the UK’s Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) is committed to regularly updating the code, where the most recent amendments to respond to emerging issues of concern include:
- strengthening best practice benchmarks to ensure fairness and consistency in employment contracts, and setting out principles on the use of contractual repayment clauses
- setting out the routes of escalation around any concerns about exploitative recruitment or employment practices, as well as breaches of the code
- providing clarity on the code’s application to different international recruitment models
- introducing a new knowledge test for recruiting organisations applying to be registered on the ethical recruiters list, and
- expanding the illustrative scenario examples to help the code be correctly applied.
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