Jean Piernicki from University Hospital Southampton asks:

I am sure you all recruit overseas nurses. What do you do about the health clearance form  (see Health clearance page 1 - Health clearance page 2).

As nurses we don’t undertake “medical examinations”, if we ask a Dr to perform a “medical examination” what would that consist of?

An OH representative could in theory be an administrator.

These are staff who are currently cleared by OH and working as Band 4’s while waiting for their PIN numbers.

The reason for asking is this form has been rejected – but others have been accepted. We are still waiting for a response back from the NMC.

How do you overcome this?

Please respond direct to Jean.Piernicki@uhs.nhs.uk  and cc to admin@nhshealthatwork.co.uk.

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