Dido Harding wants to make 'NHS less reliant on foreigners'

Dido Harding wants to make 'NHS less reliant on foreigners' Baroness Dido Harding is vowing to end England’s reliance on foreign doctors as part of her application to become the next head of the NHS, it is claimed.

The Tory peer, who hopes to succeed Sir Simon Stevens, is believed to want to challenge the “prevailing orthodoxy” in government that it is ‘better to import medical professionals from overseas’, according to the Sunday Times. iNews

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• NHS would not survive without the contribution of overseas healthcare workers BMA
• ‘Diversity in the NHS enables us to help people’, says Afghan doctor Channel 4 News
• Dido Harding 'vows to end NHS reliance on foreign doctors and nurses' if she becomes head of the health service - despite Matt Hancock previously urging a 'new Windrush generation' to fill jobs The Daily Mail
• Dido Harding’s bid to lead the NHS is symptomatic of a grim populism iNews
• Potential new NHS chief’s pledge to make the ‘NHS less reliant on foreigners’ met with backlash Nursing Notes