Belgium has a lot vacant nursing jobs, and nurses trained in Spain are moving to Flanders to fill vacant posts. A handful will soon complete Flemish language courses in Madrid before moving to Flanders near the end of the year, reports the De Morgen newspaper.

An extra 100 child health nurses will raise WA's poor vaccination rate, which was the lowest in the country last year, and increase the low number of children who have recommended health checks, Health Minister Kim Hames said yesterday.

The State Government will employ the new child health nurses over the next four years with $58.5 million that was announced in last week's Budget.

Shadow health minister Roger Cook welcomed the extra 100 nurses but said more were needed because there was a shortfall of 150 child health nurses.

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The Royal College of Nursing said community nurses are at risk of being cut.

More than 60,000 frontline jobs in the NHS – including nursing staff – are at risk of being axed or have already been cut, and community nurses are among those facing cuts, which meant Government plans to move care from acute hospitals to community sites were a “facade”.


Community services, covering district and mental health nurses and those who visit patients in their own homes, were being “overburdened”, said the RCN.