Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust is celebrating a successful ongoing recruitment drive after offering 64 highly-skilled nurses posts for next year.

Recruited from the Philippines, the new staff will arrive in groups of 20 in March, April and May.

Kate Lorenti, deputy director of human resources at the trust, said: “This has been a success. We were impressed by the high quality of the caring nurses we interviewed in Manila and to offer roles to 64 qualified nurses is fantastic news.”

The recruitment drive is continuing in the UK and overseas. In April, the trust recruited more than 20 recently-qualified UK nurses and they started work at the trust’s hospitals — including King’s Mill and Mansfield Community — at the end of last month.