PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Doctors: Migrant Workers (15 January 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department are taking to replace the services of overseas qualified doctors that (a) are planning to leave and (b) may leave in the next five years.

Asked by:
Stephen Morgan (Labour)

The Government hugely values the contribution of overseas doctors working in the National Health Service.

As of September 2017 there are 3,276 more staff from non-United Kingdom European Union countries working in the NHS than in June 2016.

The Government is committed to ensuring that the NHS is able to meet demand well into the 21st century, and this is why from September 2018, the Government will fund up to 1,500 additional medical training places in England each year. This is in addition to the 6,000 medical school places currently available in England.

Answered by:
Steve Barclay (Conservative)
23 January 2018