Jeremy Hunt promises to end NHS reliance on overseas doctors after Brexit

Jeremy Hunt promises to end NHS reliance on overseas doctors after Brexit Health secretary to outline plans in Tory conference speech for up to 1,500 additional training places every year in UK medical schools

Jeremy Hunt is to pledge that the NHS in England will be “self sufficient” in doctors after Britain leaves the European Union as he sets out a package of measures aimed at reducing its reliance on foreign-trained medics.

The health secretary will use his speech to the Conservative party conference on Tuesday to promise that medical schools in the UK will be allowed to offer up to 1,500 extra training places a year, and released figures that said that one in four NHS doctors have been trained abroad. Continue reading... The Guardian

See also:

• NHS Employers welcomes increase in home grown doctors NHS Employers
• General practice must factor strongly in plans to boost doctors numbers, says RCGP Royal College of General Practitioners
• Student doctor numbers to rise by 25% BBC News
• Jeremy Hunt: Let's replace foreign doctors with homegrown talent in Post-Brexit Britain The Daily Mail
• NHS will become 'self-sufficient' and no longer rely on foreign doctors, Jeremy Hunt announces The Daily Telegraph
• Jeremy Hunt's plan to stop us plundering the world for medics is a good start The Daily Telegraph
• Doctors face four-year mandatory NHS service as Jeremy Hunt expands medical training GP Online
• Jeremy Hunt unveils plan to fine doctors who move abroad after training The Independent