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Friday, September 1, 2017 –
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The NHS is England is to embark on a £100m international
recruitment drive to attract foreign GPs.
The BBC
reports that contracts worth £20,000 per doctor have been offered
to recruitment agencies to help the service achieve its goal of
5,000 extra doctors by 2020. The agencies would be expected to
cover the costs of relocation, recruitment and any extra
training.
The number of contracts being offered means up to 3,000 GPs,
over half the total target, will come from overseas. Doctors
from EU countries will be targeted first.
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As part of a 2015 Conservative election promise, GP services are
to receive an extra £2.4bn by 2020 – a rise of 14 per cent once
inflation is taken into account. NHS bosses have already said they
will increase the number of training places for GPs – even though
seven per cent of spots went unfilled last year.
The drive to increase the number of family doctors comes after
the Daily Mail revealed that some 202
practices across England had closed or merged with another service
in the last 12 months. Doctors are warning morale is at an all-time
low and many GPs are abandoning the profession.
Despite claims the service is on the brink of collapse due to
increasing workloads and a dwindling workforce, the government’s
promise to have GPs available seven days a week looks set to place
even more pressure on staffing numbers.
Dr Krishna Kasaraneni of the British Medical Association
predicted that even with the recruitment of doctors from abroad,
the government would still fall “well short of its target of
recruiting 5,000 new GPs by 2020”.
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