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The core team

The people behind the route.

With over 35 years of experience in healthcare, staffing, training and workforce development we are committed to build the next generation of healthcare professionals with a global impact.

Dr. Shivam Natarajan

CEO and Founder

Surgeon, entrepreneur, educationist and advisor to governments around the world he has mentored, trained and led many to successful careers all over the world.

Suresh Narayan

Visionary leader driving NewMedSkills’ global strategy and growth, with over two decades of experience in the staffing, services and training industry.

Suroop Gopinathan

Passionate about delivering client-centric solutions, with a strong focus on driving innovation and operational efficiency.

Bhanu Prakash

Expertise in scaling operations and building high-performing teams across global markets.

Partha Ramasamy

Leading international expansion with a focus on building sustainable client relationships and operational excellence.

Sudhir Kumar

Spearheading business development and client delivery, with a proven track record of driving growth.

Joseph NL

A strategic leader driving the Hire, Train, Deploy model. Focused on bridging talent and business needs with a consultative, solution-driven approach.

Independent counsel

NMS Advisory Board

Senior independent advisers to NewMedSkills.

Professor Shafi Ahmed

Surgeon, Health Technology Innovator and Futurist

Consultant colorectal surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. Pioneer of virtual reality surgery, streamed worldwide.

Andrew Moore

Health and Care Transformation Consultant

Partner at CLARITY Consulting Associates, delivering major health and care programmes across the UK and Gulf. Former EY and KPMG leader.

Professor Ezz Hatab

Higher Education Leader, ESG and Governance Specialist

Founder of ZeeDimension, Dubai based ESG and governance consultancy. Former President of ALDAR University College and Professor of IT.

Our commitments

What we hold ourselves to.

01

In writing, always.

Fourteen stages, visible from the first day. If a step moves, you see it move.

02

Know before you pay.

The readiness assessment is free, and it tells you where you stand before you pay any exam fee.

03

One platform, not a chain of desks.

Assessment, training, certification and deployment live in one place, so nothing is lost in a hand-off.

04

An honest timeline.

We say three to six months because that is what the route typically takes — not what a brochure wants it to be.

Why we exist

It was never really about geography.

Flights are the easy part. What actually stands between a capable clinician and a first shift abroad is a short list — and every item on it is work we have chosen to do properly.

A regulator you have never met

Every destination licenses nurses its own way. The free assessment shows you the route that applies to you — before you pay any exam fee.

An exam in an unfamiliar format

Prometric test centres, computer-based tests, OSCE-style stations. Coached, prepared and passed before you travel.

A file that must hold up

DataFlow verifies your credentials at source. We keep that file organised, document by document.

Months of not knowing

The journey typically runs three to six months, tracked in fourteen stages — so you always know which one you are in.

Where the route leads

Every destination writes its own rules.

Each destination sets its own exam and keeps its own register. The route changes; the way we walk it with you does not.

  1. United Kingdom England (UK) — CBT (Computer-Based Test) + OSCE
  2. The GCC Countries Prometric exams · DataFlow verification
  3. Europe Germany · France · Italy — each with its own registration route
  4. North America United States · Canada — each with its own exam pairing
  5. Australia NCLEX-RN + OSCE
  6. New Zealand CAP (Competence Assessment Programme) — theory exam + OSCE

The exact exam pairing for every country is published in full on our home page. Wherever you are heading, it starts with the same free readiness assessment.

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How we work

Honest work, written down.

No shortcuts and no mystery. It starts with an honest reading of where you are — and every step after that feeds the next by design.

  • Your self-assessment 40%
  • Our clinical assessment 30%
  • Your CV, read by AI 30%
Gap analysis
  • Your self-assessment — 40%
  • Our clinical assessment — 30%
  • Your CV, read by AI — 30%

↓  Gap analysis

No single opinion — including ours — decides your readiness.

  1. 01 · Assess

    Three views of you — your self-assessment (40%), our clinical assessment (30%) and your CV read by AI (30%) — become one honest picture. It does not end with a score; it ends with a gap analysis.

  2. 02 · Train

    The gap analysis becomes a personalised learning plan mapped to real courses — yours, not a generic bundle — with course assessments across six question types, so progress is demonstrated, not declared.

  3. 03 · Certify

    The plan turns to paperwork and proof: DataFlow verification, then your destination’s licensing exam — coached and passed before you travel.

  4. 04 · Deploy

    You arrive verified, licensed and prepared — into the UK, the GCC Countries, Europe, North America, Australia or New Zealand — tracked stage by stage.

A nurse reviewing licensing and verification paperwork

One journey, one record — stages 1 to 14. Typically three to six months end to end.

The tracker is not a courtesy. It is how we keep ourselves honest.

Contact us

Talk to the team that covers you.

Three offices, three time zones. Whoever you reach is the person who handles your region — no switchboard, no ticket number.

Europe

United Kingdom, Germany and the wider region.

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Dubai & the GCC Countries

UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait.

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India

Sourcing, assessment and candidate support.

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