So both UK-trained and overseas-trained doctors are leaving
I imagine this is also highly geographical, which suggests places like London will still have high demand for doctors but other areas will struggle because it’s not just foreign-trained doctors, nearly 40% of British medical students are non-white
A couple months ago, there was this old white couple in Halifax (Northern England) who attacked a Filipino nurse in the streets and threatened to set their dog on her child. I read later, she left the region to move elsewhere in England.
upthetruth1 on
“In 1963 the Conservatives launched a campaign to recruit trained doctors from overseas to fill the manpower shortages caused by NHS expansion. Some 18,000 of them were recruited from India and Pakistan. Many of those recruited had several years of experience in their home countries and arrived to gain further medical experience, training, or qualification. In 1968, the recruitment of overseas doctors was fuelled again by the predictions of further medical shortages by the Todd Committee, which recommended expanding medical schools. By 1971, 31 per cent of all doctors working in the NHS in England were born and qualified overseas. Overseas doctors remained central to NHS staffing throughout the last decades of the twentieth century, filling vacancies in locations and specialties that were unpopular with UK trained doctors. In 1997, 44 per cent of 7,229 newly registered doctors (under full registration) had received their initial medical education overseas.”
The NHS has depended on immigrants from near the start
American_Baby_H1tler on
Based. Maybe then there is a silver of chance that the reform voters will learn when the waiting times get much longer (they won’t and will just keep blaming foreigners).
assasstits on
> the NHS is so heavily reliant on doctors from elsewhere – 42% of its entire medical workforce qualified overseas.
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So both UK-trained and overseas-trained doctors are leaving
I imagine this is also highly geographical, which suggests places like London will still have high demand for doctors but other areas will struggle because it’s not just foreign-trained doctors, nearly 40% of British medical students are non-white
A couple months ago, there was this old white couple in Halifax (Northern England) who attacked a Filipino nurse in the streets and threatened to set their dog on her child. I read later, she left the region to move elsewhere in England.
“In 1963 the Conservatives launched a campaign to recruit trained doctors from overseas to fill the manpower shortages caused by NHS expansion. Some 18,000 of them were recruited from India and Pakistan. Many of those recruited had several years of experience in their home countries and arrived to gain further medical experience, training, or qualification. In 1968, the recruitment of overseas doctors was fuelled again by the predictions of further medical shortages by the Todd Committee, which recommended expanding medical schools. By 1971, 31 per cent of all doctors working in the NHS in England were born and qualified overseas. Overseas doctors remained central to NHS staffing throughout the last decades of the twentieth century, filling vacancies in locations and specialties that were unpopular with UK trained doctors. In 1997, 44 per cent of 7,229 newly registered doctors (under full registration) had received their initial medical education overseas.”
The NHS has depended on immigrants from near the start
Based. Maybe then there is a silver of chance that the reform voters will learn when the waiting times get much longer (they won’t and will just keep blaming foreigners).
> the NHS is so heavily reliant on doctors from elsewhere – 42% of its entire medical workforce qualified overseas.
The US could never