Posted on 09/26/2023 2:13:30 PM PDT by lowbridge
Hundreds of Nigerian midwives working for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) have been suspected of gaining their medical qualifications by fraudulently having others take their exams for them in their home country, and dozens remain under investigation.
In a press release published on Wednesday, the U.K.’s Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) explained it had received reports back in May this year of “unusual data” relating to computer-based tests at the Yunnik Technologies Test Centre in Ibadan, Nigeria.
It added that, following an investigation, it now believes “there is evidence of widespread fraud at the Yunnik site.”
Foreign nurses who wish to join the NMC register and work in healthcare in Britain are required to undergo several assessments to prove their competency, one of which includes a computer-based test (CBT).
The healthcare regulator initially raised doubts over the legitimacy of test results pertaining to 515 Nigerian nurses and midwives currently practicing in the U.K. and deemed their results invalid.
This list has since been narrowed down to 48 individuals the NMC believes are “likely” to be fraudulent applicants, although all who took the exam at the test center will be required to retake it.
“We suspect some people fraudulently obtained their CBT, probably by use of a proxy tester, where someone takes the test on behalf of someone else. Overall, this means we cannot have confidence in any CBT result from this test center and we’re treating all CBTs obtained at Yunnik as invalid,” the NMC said in a statement.
A further 669 nurses and midwives who have applied to work in Britain but are not yet employed are also understood to have fraudulently passed the exam.
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Fraudulent medical exam passage must be rampant everywhere. My youngest grandson made more sense the CDC and 90% of Drs pushing lies.
Enoch Powell is doing somersaults in his grave.
No Way!
Nigerians doing something fraudulent or under-handed?!
No way do I believe this, not Nigeria!
While I was in the hospital a Pilipino nurse taught another Pilipino “nurse” how to insert a catheter in my vein. The second nurse, whose tag identified her as an RN had obviously never done this before. How could you become an RN and never have inserted a needle into someone’s vein before? When I started watching, it was obvious some of the foreign “nurses” identified by their badges as RN’s were no more medically knowledgeable than my cat.
The problem is computer-based tests. They’re everywhere, and it’s not so hard to cheat on them. A guy I know is a biologist. And he routinely took on-line biology exams for his younger relatives.
He told me this without a hint of shame. Disgusting. After that, I avoided him.
Uh, if you casually follow the UK Daily Mail ‘reporting’ for a while (a few months will do), you’ll not be surprised that most of the medical malfeasance stories feature Africans, Pakistanis, Indians, and sundry Middle Easteners.
It’s how they keep their “free” ‘health-scare’ scam running: Import as many 3rd-world marginal-qualifieds as possible, while bleeding their home-trained professionals out to Australia or Canada.
Duh!
I think by now he has been afforded by Heaven an Olympic set of all the various gymnastic bars to gyrate about.
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