Policy paper

Bilateral agreement between the UK and Kenya on healthcare workforce collaboration

Bilateral agreement between the governments of the UK and Kenya on the recruitment of Kenyan healthcare workers in accordance with their respective existing national laws and regulations.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 11 November 2021

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

Bilateral agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kenya and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for collaboration on healthcare workforce (text only)

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Bilateral agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kenya and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for collaboration on healthcare workforce (signed)

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Details

This bilateral agreement sets out the framework under which nurses and other healthcare professionals from Kenya will be recruited to the UK.

The bilateral agreement includes sections on:

• areas of cooperation
• recruitment
• employment conditions
• regulation of recruitment
• the setting up of a joint committee to oversee the implementation and interpretation of the bilateral agreement

Supporting operational guidelines for the UK-Kenya bilateral agreement on health workforce recruitment are currently in development and will be published alongside the bilateral agreement in due course.

See also the code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel.

Published 11 November 2021