ITV News can reveal how many hospital trusts are being forced to recruit from abroad as they struggle to staff their wards.
In response to the Mid-Staffordshire hospital scandal, there’s a renewed focus on safe staffing levels, and hospitals are boosting their nurse numbers.
To find out how those posts are being filled, ITV News made a Freedom of Information request to England’s 160 acute hospital trusts. We got 74 responses and here are the results.