Home from home: helping refugee nurses rebuild careers in the UK

How support with practical needs such as language skills, requalification, housing and job placement brings rewards for both displaced nursing staff and UK trusts

Being forced to flee your homeland can be devastating enough, but for some refugees it also means they are unable to continue with the nursing career they love.

‘When you have to rebuild your life in another country, you may already feel you’ve lost a part of your identity – and your profession is a huge part of that,’ says Bex Nield, NHS partnership lead at RefuAid, a charity supporting refugees to build independent