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Nick Hays FREC FRCSA
30 Years Building Systems That Still Operate TodayNick Hays has spent more than three decades not just working in international healthcare recruitment, but shaping the infrastructure, policy frameworks and professional standards that the industry runs on. The organisations he has built, the government programmes he has contributed to, and the professional bodies he has helped found continue to function long after the work that created them was done. That is a different kind of track record from simply placing candidates.
Nick founded Latitudes Group International — a healthcare recruitment business operating across three continents, holding government contracts and working with health departments and hospitals across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the Middle East, the United Kingdom and Canada. From its founding through to its acquisition by Medacs Healthcare PLC in 2013, Nick served as founder, CEO and Global Director, overseeing an operation that spanned jurisdictions, licensing frameworks and healthcare systems of fundamentally different characters.
His subsequent company, Carter Wellington Global Recruitment Group, became an approved NHS framework supplier and delivered major international recruitment programmes for Health Education England — including involvement in the Global Learners Programme, the Global Fellows Programme in Emergency Medicine, and a global diagnostic radiography recruitment programme. Carter Wellington now operates as a division of Staffbank.
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Australia and Singapore
Nick's expertise in international healthcare workforce strategy has been sought at the highest levels of government in two countries.
Australia
Nick held successive contracts with Queensland Health for the recruitment of overseas-trained medical practitioners, including commissioned international recruitment campaigns in the United Kingdom and Germany. He served as a Panel Member on the Ministerial Taskforce for the Determination of Area of Need for Internationally Trained Medical Practitioners — a body whose determinations shaped where overseas-trained doctors could practise across Australia.
He also held contracts with the Australian Department of Health and Ageing for the recruitment of overseas-trained doctors under the Strengthening Medicare Initiative, and served on the Steering Committee for the Development of DoctorConnect.gov.au — the Australian Government's official resource for international medical graduates. He was also a Member of the Steering Committee for the Australian Medical Council's Development of Guidelines for the Assessment of Overseas Trained Medical Specialists under Area of Need.
Across Australia, Nick's businesses held approved supplier status with Queensland Health, NSW Health, the Department of Human Services Victoria, the Department of Health Western Australia, the Department of Health South Australia, and the Department of Health and Families Northern Territory — covering every major state and territory health department on the continent.
Singapore
Nick built and maintained recruitment relationships with all major Singapore healthcare groups — both government and private — including SingHealth (Singapore General Hospital), Changi General Hospital, Tan Tock Seng, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Jurong Health, Alexandra Hospital, and the National University Hospital. These relationships encompassed recruitment across the full clinical workforce: Medical Consultants, General Practitioners, Directors and Assistant Directors of Nursing, Nurse Educators, Nurse Managers and frontline Clinicians.
Professional Recognition
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Fellow of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (FREC) — UK
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Fellow of the Recruitment, Consulting & Staffing Association (FRCSA) — Australia
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Founder and CEO — Latitudes Group International (acquired by Medacs Healthcare PLC, 2013)
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Panel Member — Australian Ministerial Taskforce for the Determination of Area of Need for Internationally Trained Medical Practitioners
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Steering Committee Member — Development of DoctorConnect.gov.au, Australian Government
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Steering Committee Member — Australian Medical Council Guidelines for Assessment of Overseas Trained Medical Specialists
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Healthcare workforce adviser to the Singapore Government
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Founding Chairman — Australian Association of Medical Recruitment Agencies (AAMRA), now AMRANZ
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Committed supporter of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel
Professional Standards
Nick was the founding chairman of the Australian Association of Medical Recruitment Agencies (AAMRA) — the professional body he helped establish to set standards for healthcare recruitment practice across Australia and New Zealand. AAMRA continues today as the Association of Medical Recruiters Australia and New Zealand (AMRANZ). The fact that the organisation has outlasted the circumstances of its founding, and continues to represent the industry, reflects the soundness of the institutional framework Nick helped put in place.
Why This Matters for Clients
There are people who understand international healthcare recruitment. There are very few who have built multi-continental businesses in it, advised national governments in two countries, contributed to the systems those governments now rely on, and helped establish the professional standards the industry is held to.
Nick Hays is one of those people. When you engage Staffbank, that depth of knowledge and institutional experience sits behind every workforce strategy, every licensing assessment, every sourcing decision, and every risk mitigation recommendation made on your behalf. It is not a marketing claim. It is a verifiable record.