Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of GPs have left the UK to work abroad within (a) one, (b) two and (c) three years of completing their training in each of the last five years.
The information requested is not held by the Department.
The General Medical Council (GMC) is the independent regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom. The GMC has confirmed that although it holds data on the number of doctors who have applied for a certificate of current professional status to work aboard, it does not hold data on the number of doctors registered to practise in the UK who actually go abroad to work in medicine.