International Nurses Setting up Home with Local Donations

Settling into new lives is being made easier through welcome public donations of furniture and other essentials, such as bedding and white goods, which are being co-ordinated by Trust staff.

Louise Hathaway, from RDaSH, is providing pastoral support to the nurses. She said:

“After arriving in the UK the nurses spend eight weeks living in single accommodation on our Doncaster site, where they prepare for the exams they need to take to practice in the UK. After qualifying and being allocated a clinical post at one of the mental health or general wards in Doncaster, Rotherham or North Lincolnshire they are ready to move into their own home.

We launched an appeal for donations to help them get started and people have responded wonderfully. We aim to provide each nurse with a home-starter collection of items that include a bed, sofa, wardrobe, TV and fridge/freezer. The aim is to help ease the financial outlay of setting up a new home.

Many of the nurses have families coming over to join them as soon as they are able so other donations like children’s toys are also welcome. We expect more nurses to arrive through this international recruitment scheme, so more items are always welcome.”