BRITAIN is recruiting nurses from a third of the world’s most short-staffed countries, new analysis reveals.

New recruits to the nursing workforce include those from 47 countries including Uganda, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana who, according to the World Health Organisation, face severe workforce shortages of their own.

The analysis comes weeks after the Nursing and Midwifery Council confirmed almost half of all new recruits were from overseas in the most recent 12 months.