The United Kingdom government has announced that it has stopped active recruitment of health and social care personnel from Nigeria and 53 other countries globally.
The announcement was contained in the revised code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, but it does not prevent individual health and social care personnel from independently applying for employment in the United Kingdom.
Countries on the red list are; Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia.
Other countries are Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Federated States of Micronesia, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Republic of Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Due to increasing healthcare workers’ migration from lower-middle-income countries to the UK, in 2021, the UK suspended the recruitment of healthcare workers from Nigeria and 46 other countries.
