{"id":136403,"date":"2025-01-09T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/uk-cut-health-aid-to-vulnerable-nations-while-hiring-their-nurses-research-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T07:15:11","slug":"uk-cut-health-aid-to-vulnerable-nations-while-hiring-their-nurses-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/uk-cut-health-aid-to-vulnerable-nations-while-hiring-their-nurses-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"UK cut health aid to vulnerable nations while hiring their nurses, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136403\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The UK cut health aid to some of the world\u2019s vulnerable countries at the same time as recruiting thousands of their nurses, in a \u201cdouble whammy\u201d for fragile health systems, new analysis has found. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which carried out the research, said Labour had a \u201cduty to fix\u201d aid cuts imposed by the previous government, and to work on increasing the UK\u2019s domestic supply of nurses.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2020 and 2023, direct UK aid for health-related projects in \u201cred list\u201d countries \u2013 those with the most severe workforce shortages \u2013 fell by nearly 63%, from \u00a3484m to \u00a3181m.Spending on projects designed to strengthen the healthcare workforce in those countries fell by 83%, from \u00a324m to \u00a34m. At the same time, the number of nurses from these countries on the UK\u2019s national register rose sharply. There were 11,386 registered in September 2020, and 32,543 in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative government under Boris Johnson pushed through a \u00a34bn cut to the foreign aid budget, reducing spending from 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) to 0.5%. In last October\u2019s budget, Labour kept government spending at this reduced figure. Prof Nicola Ranger, RCN general secretary and chief executive, said: \u201cCuts to aid may have been the previous government\u2019s idea, but it is now this government\u2019s duty to fix it.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>By maintaining the aid target at a lowly 0.5% of GNI, the UK is failing to uphold its international duties, effectively worsening chronic nursing workforce shortages in some of the most under-resourced healthcare systems in the world. \u201cThe prime minister promised \u2018change\u2019 on being elected and that must include undoing the damage done to aid budgets by restoring spending to 0.7%,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>An abrupt halt to UK funding for one project in 2021 meant ambulances in Sierra Leone were left without fuel and patients could not get to hospital for emergency treatment. \u201cThere is no question that there were fatalities as a result,\u201d said a UK health worker involved in the programme. Ranger said: \u201cRecruiting heavily from the same countries from which we have deprived aid is a double whammy for some of the world\u2019s most fragile healthcare systems. But it is also a damning indictment of successive governments\u2019 unwillingness to properly fund and grow our own domestic nursing profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 55 countries on the World Health Organization\u2019s \u201cred list\u201d (formally known as the health workforce support and safeguards list), include Ghana, Nigeria, Nepal, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Somalia. Other countries are not supposed to actively recruit from red-list countries, although staff from those countries are free to apply for vacancies elsewhere. The RCN analysis also found the proportion of health-related spending within the UK\u2019s total aid budget declined from 16.7% in 2020 to 7.6% in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis looks only at bilateral aid \u2013 directly between two countries. Some red-list countries will also have received support from the UK through multilateral organisations such as the Global Fund and the World Health Organization. A government spokesperson said: \u201cThe UK remains one of the most generous donors among the G7 and we are committed to restoring development spending to 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) as soon as fiscal circumstances allow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working to address the global shortage of healthcare workers through our leading multilateral health investments. UK support to the World Bank and Global Financing Facility generates further investment in the global health workforce.\u201d The spokesperson said a code of practice governing international recruitment of health and social-care staff ensured it was \u201cethical and sustainable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jan\/06\/uk-cuts-health-aid-vulnerable-countries-recruiting-nurses-analysis-royal-college-nursing-research\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/uk-cut-health-aid-to-vulnerable-nations-while-hiring-their-nurses-research-finds\/\">UK cut health aid to vulnerable nations while hiring their nurses, research finds<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17520,579,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-136403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hiring-nurses","tag-uk","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}