MAJOR SHAKE UP LOOMS IN EU SYSTEM FOR RECOGNISING FOREIGN NURSING QUALIFICATIONS
January 1st, 2011
BY ALAN OSBORN
BY and large, European Union (EU) legislation aimed at helping nurses and other health professionals to work in European countries outside their own has worked well since the EU's enforced mutual recognition of qualifications began in the late 1970s. "Because nursing education across Europe has been harmonised, if you're a general nurse, (in the UK this means registered nurse - adult nursing), then your qualification is automatically recognised in another EU country," said Susan Williams, senior international adviser in the Policy and ...
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