We should not be pinching foreign nurses in the 1st place People in Africa are dying because there best nurses come here just so we can reduce waiting times! What is more important: shorter waiting times in UK or people dying from lack of nurses in Africa?
http://uk.altermedia.info/general/student-nurses-fail-to-find-work_424.html a lot of student nurses fail to find work so an agency might be oyur opnly hope (see link above)