Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 61201
Doctors: Migrant Workers
Tabled: 19 June 2025
Answered: 25 June 2025
Named DayQuestion
Alicia Kearns
Conservative — Rutland and Stamford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing restrictions on recruitment to enable NHS Trusts to recruit more British doctors trained abroad.
Answer
Karin SmythNo assessment has been made. British doctors who obtained their medical degree abroad need to meet the requirements of the General Medical Council, the independent professional regulator of the medical profession, to practise medicine in the United Kingdo...
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