since 1997 the number of medical schools in UK has been doubled , so now they have enough home medical graduates for job posts they have there
so guys , no more places left for you there :-s
NHS closes its doors to foreign doctors
Doctors from India, South Africa and other Commonwealth countries are to be barred from the NHS in an attempt to preserve health service jobs for British graduates.
For generations the health service has been sustained by immigration but yesterday the Home Office moved to end a crisis that has prevented thousands of highly trained British doctors from advancing their careers. Last year the system for selecting doctors for higher training collapsed in what was described as the greatest disaster for medical training in a generation.
The change will end a long tradition of importing doctors to the NHS. Among the 277,000 now registered with the General Medical Council, almost half got their first medical qualifications abroad — the majority from India, Pakistan, South Africa and
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3321919.ece
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