FROM DRAIN TO GAIN - The role of the UK in building ethical international recruitment strategies for Quality Universal Health Coverage

This paper highlighted the The high level of engagement from the long history of international recruitment UK Government in the design and to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), execution of the symposia, demonstrated with one in seven NHS staff now reporting that the symposia organisers are not a non-British nationality. [...] From Competition to Collaboration called on the UK to recognise the In the first two mornings of the symposia, contradiction between its role in advancing we examined education and training health and wellbeing in LMICs using initiatives already being offered by the Official Development Assistance (ODA) UK, looking across the UK’s health-related and its recruitment of health workers to ODA and the. [...] is well placed to provide ethical leadership in shaping the migration and mobility of Any discussion about managing the health workers, as the first country in the movement of health workers in an ethical world to deliver Universal Health Coverage manner inevitability takes place under to its citizens in 1948, and a country that the shadow of widespread shortages is making a sustained contribution. [...] choices individuals make, and we need to engage in the complexity of how health “I want the UK to continue to be systems can work together to shape a leader in global health migration in ways that benefit the workforce planning, working training, retention, and development of in collaboration to ensure the health workers in all settings. [...] health workers migrating in any given Under the Code, active recruitment period, the nature of such migration should not take place from countries on (permanent or temporary), and the type the WHO Health Workforce Support and and level of experience of the health Safeguard list.