Health Professions: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 16th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of health and care professionals registered with the (a) General Chiropractic Council, (b) General Dental Council, (c) General Medical Council, (d) General Optical Council, (e) General Osteopathic Council, (f) General Pharmaceutical Council, (g) Health and Care Professions Council, (h) Nursing and Midwifery Council and (i) Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland in each of the last five years is from overseas.


Answered by
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Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 21st July 2015

The information requested about the proportion of health and care professionals from overseas that are registered with the nine health and care professional regulatory bodies (RBs) in the United Kingdom is not collected or held centrally.

Information provided by the nine RBs on new registrations per annum, in each of the last five years for which data is available, is shown in the attached table. Data is provided on the total number of new registrations for each year and this figure is broken down by whether the applicant trained in the UK or overseas.

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