Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 61215

Doctors and Nurses: Overseas Workers

Tabled: 19 June 2025

Answered: 1 July 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require British trained (a) doctors and (b) nurses to give a minimum of five years’ service to the NHS before working abroad.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Government has no current plans to introduce tie-ins for doctors and nurses working in the National Health Service. The Government keeps the funding arrangements for all healthcare students under close review.Later this year, we will publish a new wor...

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