A team from Mid Essex Hospitals Trust is heading to India next month in an attempt to recruit about 100 nurses.
It is the first major overseas recruitment drive by the trust, which must employ 130 extra nurses this year to meet new NHS targets.
The trust is sending four people to India early in February. The team will be spending six days in the country, with a hectic schedule of interviews.
Each nurse will have to prove English language skills and be health screened.
They will also have to demonstrate that they have the same ability as UK-trained staff and can communicate in English with patients and their colleagues.
Sally Gooch, the trust's director of nursing, said: "Hospital services for the Chelmsford area are expanding at such a rate that we need an extra injection of highly skilled nurses.
"India's government is concerned at the number of its nurses without jobs, and we are looking forward to bringing them to England to help us out, be integrated into our hospitals and gain from the experience of nursing in another country.
"The trust says that the overseas recruits will all be experienced and qualified nurses."
Published Friday, January 24, 2003
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