"It's really worrying that so many highly skilled and highly valued international doctors the NHS just can't afford to lose are leaving in their droves, said Daniel Elkeles, the chief executive of the hospitals group NHS Providers. We wouldn't have an NHS if we hadn't for many years recruited talented and valued people from all around the world. The diversity of the NHS workforce is one of its biggest strengths."
"Doctors who trained abroad have long made up a significant sector of the NHS workforce, and medical care in the UK would have long since withered away without them. But as we warned last month along with other trade unions, a sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is leaving many doctors with a migrant background considering if it is worth staying."
GMC figures show 4,880 overseas-qualified doctors left the UK in 2024, a 26% increase from 3,869 in 2023. NHS leaders, senior doctors and the medical regulator attribute much of the rise to growing denigration and abuse directed at migrant staff. Senior figures warn that losing highly skilled international medics threatens significant gaps across the NHS workforce and weakens the diversity that supports service delivery. The health secretary warned that NHS staff face a resurgence of socially tolerated racism. Recruitment has levelled off, with 20,060 joining the UK medical register in 2024 versus 19,629 in 2023.
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