Fourteen thousand Filipino nurses have been recruited into the UK over the past year alone. They come from a part of the world that suffers some of the worst poverty anywhere. In Places there is little or no health care system and the mass exodus of their most highly trained nurses is making things even worse. Many of them are highly skilled specialists but the impoverished Philippine government is willing to sacrifice its healthcare provision for the hard currency the nurses send home. The recruitment process has given rise to a multi-million pound industry and with it allegations of abuse. Agents are taking money to find nurses from equally desperate hospitals in the west, and also taking cash from desperate nurses trying to escape poverty. It's another case of cash being king in a fully globalised world.

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