Doctors: Overseas Workers
Commons · Question 36842 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
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
Answered by Karin Smyth, 17 Mar 2025
The 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....