NHS: Recruitment

(asked on 30th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Government's hostile environment immigration policy on NHS recruitment.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 3rd May 2018

The Government is in no doubt of the invaluable contribution that overseas health professionals make to the National Health Service and we will continue to welcome them in future. In a global context, as demand for more staff grows internationally, the United Kingdom’s current and historical dependence on recruitment of overseas staff is neither sustainable nor right as developing countries seek to retain their own much needed health care professionals. That is why we have announced historic increases in training places for doctors and nurses in England, to increase the domestic supply of NHS staff, reduce migration to sustainable levels and to ensure an ethical role in the growing international labour market for health professionals.

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