"Doctors and nurses from foreign countries are shunning the NHS due to a hostile environment created by anti-migrant rhetoric, according to the leader of the UK's medics. The growing perception of the UK as being unwelcoming and racist due to the government's immigration approach is creating a risk for the health service, according to Jeanette Dickson, chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges."
"Ms Dickson, who leads the body representing the UK and Ireland's 220,000 doctors, including GPs, surgeons and anaesthetists, told The Guardian: My feeling is we are creating a culture where the rhetoric is foreigner bad'. If you have never visited Britain and are looking at our media, the social media, press media, print media, what our politicians are reported as saying, I think that it's not unreasonable to see that as a hostile environment."
The Independent invites donations to fund reporters and to keep journalism accessible without paywalls. Foreign-trained doctors and nurses are increasingly avoiding NHS posts amid a hostile environment shaped by anti-migrant rhetoric and perceptions of Britain as unwelcoming and racist under current immigration policies. Jeanette Dickson, chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, warns that this perception is creating a tangible risk to the health service and could leave the NHS without a critical mass of staff to operate safely. Around 42 percent of UK doctors qualified abroad, heightening vulnerability to workforce shortfalls.
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