Overseas Recruitment to Cover Middle Grade Rota: Benefits of Indo-British Collaboration: Editorial

Abstract

espite the Coalition Government's plans to cap nonEU immigrants, junior doctors from India are being recruited to resolve current medical staffing shortage. Present and past preoccupation with immigration takes no account of the impact of such decisions on the
National Health Service (NHS) which has a long history of reliance on overseas health workers. The story of overseas recruitment is not new. Since the 1930s, successive governments have resolved staffing crises through recruiting workers from overseas. This shortage was
predominantly due to not having enough medical student numbers and emigration of UK trained doctors to work mainly in United States and Canada, because of relatively poor pay and conditions of the NHS.