According to report, reports that 700 Nigerian nurses are working as healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom (UK) by falsifying their credentials have been debunked.
Remember that tweets on X, formerly known as Twitter, and Facebook recently went viral, stating that the National Health Service (NHS) had discovered that 700 Nigerian nurses had falsified their credentials to work in the nation.
A post on X stated, “In the UK, the NHS found 700 Nigerian nurses had fake qualifications as people stood in for their exam.” The post apparently received about 1.3 million views.
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“Nigeria is considered as a ‘red list’ country for the recruitment of health professionals, meaning poaching of staff could endanger its own health and care system.”
The NHS did not find 700 Nigerian nurses who had fabricated their credentials to work in the UK, according to a fact check of this article by Reuters.
The NHS reportedly failed to comment on the accusation and instead directed Reuters to an investigation by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), according to the platform.
In the UK, there are 780,000 nursing and midwifery workers, and it was discovered that the NMC is an independent organisation that controls and monitors their professional standards.
No registered nurses in the investigation, according to the platform’s findings, had fraudulent credentials, though.
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“Forty-eight registered nurses are under suspicion and will be reviewed by an independent panel. This is also an NMC-related matter, not NHS.”
In the meantime, the NMC claimed in a statement dated September 20 that it had found extensive evidence of alleged test fraud at the Yunnik Technologies Test Centre in Ibadan, Nigeria.
In response to an inquiry email, the NMC informed the platform that it suspected that 669 applicants to the register and 48 professionals already listed on the NMC register had “more likely than not” passed a computer-based test (CBT) falsely.
An impartial assessment panel will evaluate the 48 registered nurses suspected of fraud.
The CBT will still need to be retaken by another 467 licenced nurses and midwives who took it in Yunnik but aren’t suspected of fraud.
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An estimated 1,440 Yunnik candidates, both suspected and unconfirmed, who are not on the NMC record, will also need to redo the CBT.
The NMC said, “To be clear, no final decision has been made, and this does not relate to people’s original nursing/midwifery qualification.”
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