Doctors: Migrant Workers
(asked on 18th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of doctors working in hospitals are from non-UK countries.
This question was answered on 23rd November 2015
The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects data on the number of doctors working in National Health Service hospital and community health services in England.
Nationality is a self-reported field within the electronic staff record system and of the 98,894 full time equivalent number of doctors (not including locums) who declared their nationality 25,607 (25.6%) are non-United Kingdom nationals.