Foreign Recruitment in Health and Social Care: Recent Experience Reviewed

International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 41-57

  Dobson, Janet ^a   Salt, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foreign recruitment; NHS; Policy implications; Statistical data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992998995     PISSN: 17479894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17479894200600026     Document Type: Review

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