Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many refugee doctors are currently enrolled in active refugee doctor programmes in the UK, specifically (1) Reache North West (Salford), (2) Building Bridges (London), (3) WARD (Cardiff), (4) The Bridges Programme (Glasgow) and (5) North-East England (Stockton-on-Tees); and how much annual funding each of those programmes receive from Health Education England.
Health Education England (HEE) does not provide funding for programmes in Scotland and Wales. Funding for the requested programmes in England is shown in the following table.
Refugee doctor programme | HEE funding (2017/18) | Doctors currently enrolled in programme |
Reache North West (Salford) | £363,357 | 54 |
Building Bridges (London) | £290,510 | - |
North-East England (Stockton-on-Tees) | £63,180 | 12 |
Source: HEE
Notes: Data for Cardiff and Glasgow is not available as these programmes do not fall within HEE’s remit. Breakdown for the numbers of doctors currently enrolled on the Building Bridges programme (London) is not available.