Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 80628

Health Services: Surrey Heath

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Dr Al Pinkerton

Liberal Democrat — Surrey Heath

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of excluding British citizens trained abroad from GMC registration-based prioritisation on the future NHS workforce in Surrey Heath c

Answer

Karin Smyth
British doctors who obtained their medical degree abroad need to meet the requirements of the General Medical Council (GMC), the independent regulator of the medical profession, to practise medicine in the United Kingdom. These doctors are then able to ap...
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