Joined-up approach needed to recruit overseas doctors The UK urgently needs a joined-up approach to recruitment of international doctors, according to experts. In an article* in The BMJ, James Buchan and Anita Charlesworth at The Health Foundation say the UK government’s decision to review the visa regime for international doctors is “a rare glimmer of common sense in an issue that has been more usually characterised by national policy incoherence.”
However, they warn that the “underlying problems of the UK approach to international recruitment of health professionals” remains to be “acknowledged and addressed.” OnMedica
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