[nomadking]

Originally Posted by martyh

Total garbage ,the reason why germany is struggling to fill healthcare positions is because of the influx of refugees swamping the hospitals and the fact that German healthcare providers are reluctant to recruit from abroad.

Despite a lack of personnel, more than half of nursing companies indicated that recruiting from abroad would not be an option in the future, the study said. Respondents said the process was too laborious, too expensive and the legal obstacles were too high.

http://www.euractiv.com/section/soci...ecruit-abroad/

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You appear to transposing your experience of one lot of migrants onto all migrants .I can categorically state that when i go into peoples council houses on a daily basis to work in them the most disgusting and dirty people are the British born layabouts sitting watching Jeremy Kyle on their 50" telly paid for by benefits

OECD report from 2005.

There are reports of current nurse shortages in all but a few OECD countries. With further increases in demand for nurses expected and nurse workforce ageing predicted to reduce the supply of nurses, shortages are likely to persist or even increase in the future, unless action is taken to increase flows into and reduce flows out of the workforce or to raise the productivity of nurses.

2013

Add to that an economic recession and more seniors requiring long-term care, and Europe may be facing a shortage of 1 million health professionals by 2020, according to a European Union Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning estimate.
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It's actually bad all over: America, too, may have 1.2 million job openings for nurses, due to job growth and replacements, by 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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In other countries, such as Germany, the shortage is particularly acute, and the immigration of health care workers from poorer economies even outside of Europe is becoming part of the solution.
"We expect a tremendous nursing shortage of about 500,000 people by 2030," said Professor Stefan Goerres, managing director of the Institute for Public Health and Health Care Research at the University of Bremen. "Even if the profession were more attractive, there just aren't enough young people due to declining birth rates."

2012

Germany is facing a nursing shortage: 40,000 specialists are urgently needed now, and that figure is expected to jump to 110,000 in the foreseeable future. To make up the shortfall, Germany is looking to China.

To address its shortage of nurses, especially in geriatric care, Germany has announced it will hire 200,000 Filipino nurses in the next four years. A 2013 hiring agreement, the Triple Win Project, has already allowed nurses from the Philippines and three other countries to immigrate to Germany.