Active recruitment of Nigerian medical doctors, nurses and other healthcare personnel by United Kingdom, UK agencies may come to a halt following the decision of the authorities to put Nigeria and some other countries on the red list for recruitment.

The Guardian reports that the code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, recently updated, has Nigeria returned to the red list countries, which means, “no active recruitment is permitted”.

By the updated WHO’s workforce safeguard list, and now adopted by the UK government, Nigeria and the likes of Benin, Cameroun, Ghana, Senegal, Zimbabwe, and 47 others – mostly African countries – are now in the no recruitment list.

According to the UK Home Office, “If a government-to-government agreement is put in place between the UK and a partner country, it will restrict UK employers, contracting bodies, recruitment organisations, agencies and collaborations to the terms of the agreement. The country will be added to the amber list and recruitment can happen only on the terms of the agreement .

“Changes to the red and amber country list may be made on an ad hoc basis as government-to-government agreements are signed. All agreements will take WHO guidance on the development of bilateral agreements into account.

“It is recommended that employers, recruitment organisations, agencies, collaborations and contracting bodies check the red and amber country list for updates before any recruitment drive,” it was reported.

GWG.ng reports that Nigeria has been the focus for many recruitment agencies in the UK with Nigerian doctors, nurses and other healthcare professional disgruntled with the working environment becoming easy targets for relocation.

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