title: The NMC is taking too long to process overseas applications.
abstract: As acting head of nursing and midwifery education at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, I would like to comment on 'Supervised placements will be scrapped for staff coming to the UK' (News August 6).
authors.forename: Debbie
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Knight
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D064700:Nurses, International / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*