Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 36842
Doctors: Overseas Workers
Tabled: 10 March 2025
Answered: 17 March 2025
Named DayQuestion
Pippa Heylings
Liberal Democrat — South Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of UK-trained doctors that have emigrated because of high competition ratios in the last three years; and if he will make an assessment of the po
Answer
Karin SmythThe Department does not hold the specific data requested. Data from the General Medical Council in 2022 showed that approximately 7% of doctors in England did not hold a licence to practice five years after they completed the foundation programme in 2016....
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