Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 77992

Doctors: Migrant Workers

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 22 October 2025

Question

Sir John Hayes

Conservative — South Holland and The Deepings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS doctors banned from practising overseas have been found to be working in UK hospitals in each of the last ten years.

Answer

Karin Smyth

Neither the Department nor NHS England hold this information centrally.The General Medical Council (GMC) is the regulator of all medical doctors, physician assistants, and physician assistants in anaesthesia, still legally known as anaesthesia associates ...

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