national occupational shortage causes the ' increase in specialized recruitment agencies.
The recruitment of specialized healthcare professionals has been a problem for the Government of the United Kingdom for a number of years. Despite efforts to attract staff with a series of professional streams through advertising and publicity campaigns, http://www.connexions.gov.uk) is still a clear deficit of qualified professionals in the health sector to fill the apparent gap.
Occupational therapy is one of those areas where it is felt this. Throughout the country, regional and national newspapers carry advertisements for qualified OT to fill the vacancies that appear to prevail in a meaningful way the candidates. Universities have actively used this campaign to fill the posts in the courses of occupational therapy, citing the number of opportunities available (http://www.brookes.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/ot). Whist this is a welcome move, the 3 and 4 years the duration of these courses does little to curb a problem that is immediate.
Specialist recruitment agencies (http://www.rigot.co.uk) have appeared in subsequent years, in an attempt to address this deficiency. Their activities were not limited to the United Kingdom, using the laws on immigration ' to import professionals from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, in an attempt to fill the void of occupational therapy jobs.
The problem persists and, despite applicants increased to University courses, newspapers continue to advertise job vacancies in occupational therapy and will continue to do so for some time.
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