Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government why they have decided not to proceed with the proposed refugee medical fellowships for refugee doctors which were planned for London, Manchester and Oxford.

There are no agreed plans for medical refugee fellowships. However, NHS England has been discussing opportunities, including the idea of fellowships, to provide additional support for refugees who wish to practice as a doctor in the National Health Service in England, to see whether such support would help to increase the number of doctors working in general practice by 2020-21. A decision has yet to be taken on this issue.