Doctors: Refugees

(asked on 5th September 2017) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 14th September 2017

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.

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