Medical recruitment agencies have seen an overwhelming increase in overseas doctors and other medical workers wanting to relocate to New Zealand.
Accent Medical Recruitment managing director Prudence Thomson has worked in the field for 25 years and has never seen interest as highas it has been in the last four months.
"We have been inundated from the US," she said.
"We have had probably ten-fold increase from the US and I expect that to increase up until the third of November with the US elections, and then depending on what happens over there we will continue to increase. We have been absolutely flooded, also from the UK, Singapore and Australia."
Mel Mckendrick-Marano shifted from California to west Auckland in mid-July with her partner and two young children, after considering the move for a few years.
Mckendrick-Marano, a nurse, said she appreciated that she could get her daughter back in school rather than having to do more online learning.
"It was exciting for us to be able to come here," she said.
"We could just move about in a country that's more unified in the way they handle things."
Thomson said Covid-19 had hastened the process of medical workers arriving in New Zealand despite a two-week managed isolation period.
"The quickest we've moved someone including their verification of their registration and their visa was three-and-a-half weeks, but that was pretty important to get him here quickly for waiting lists in New Zealand."
