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Globalization and Health BioMed Central Research Open Access International nurse recruitment and NHS vacancies: a cross-sectional analysis Amber S Batata* Address: Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge University, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK Email: Amber S Batata* - amberbatata@ * Corresponding author Published: 22 April 2005 Received: 03 December 2004 Accepted: 22 April 2005 Globalization and Health 2005, 1:7 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-1-7 This article is available from: /content/1/1/7 © 2005 Batata; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Foreign-trained nurse recruits exceeded the number of new British-trained recruits on the UK nurse register for the first time in 2001. As the nursing shortage continues, health care service providers rely increasingly on overseas nurses to fill the void. Which areas benefit the most? And where would the NHS be without them? Methods: Using cross-sectional data from the 2004 Nursing and Midwifery Council register, nurse resident postcodes are mapped to Strategic Health Authorities to see where foreign recruits locate and how they affect nurse shortages throughout the UK. Results: Areas with the highest vacancy rates also have the highest repres