NHS Employers voices support for foreign doct

NHS Employers has stated that doctors from overseas should still be employed by the National Health Service, despite a shortage of posts for UK graduates.

Presenting evidence to an enquiry on the controversial new recruitment process for junior doctors, the organisation said that employers believed that they had made the right decision when including foreign doctors in the selection process.

Personnel Today reports that NHS Employers still plans to allow highly skilled migrants to apply for positions as junior doctors and take advantage of the NHS training scheme.

An estimated 30,000 junior doctors started work this month, but there are still an estimated 13,000 UK medical graduates still looking for a job (30 per cent of the total).

Meanwhile, the Times newspaper claims that a major enquiry has been launched into the competence of doctors trained overseas after a General Medical Council stated that they are twice as likely to face a disciplinary hearings than graduates of UK institutions and three times as likely to be struck off.

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Date:10/08/2007 11:30:56