and paying recruitment agencies about £20,000 per head
"The National Health Service is planning to pay recruitment agencies up to £100m to find 5,000 doctors — about half of them from overseas — to plug mounting staffing gaps.The recruitment drive over the next three and a half years is intended to tackle a growing shortage of general practitioners in England, as well as fulfil a pledge by Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, to make GPs available to the public seven days a week by 2020.The hiring is expected to start in the autumn and will enable recruitment agencies to secure about £20,000 in fees per GP, according to a contract notice published by NHS England this month."
https://www.ft.com/content/757ddc58...ation:daily-empty-email:content:headline:html
and here is the notice:
"...NHS England General Practice Forward View (GPFV) committed 2 400 000 000 GBP of extra funding to General Practice. The GPFV aims to deliver an additional 5 000 medical practitioners (doctors) working in General Practice before April 2020. A key part of this is to recruit a proportion of the additional general medical practitioners (GPs) from overseas from Autumn 2017 to April 2020. It is currently anticipated that between 2 000 and 3 000 GPs may be recruited from overseas...."
http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:332444-2017:TEXT:EN:HTML
The FT also says that:
"The decision to pay up to £100m to recruitment agencies is likely to fuel concerns over the planned sale of NHS Professionals, a state-owned agency that oversees recruitment for a significant part of the NHS. The agency is estimated to save the NHS up to £70m a year by supplying staff more cheaply than private sector recruitment agencies."
"The National Health Service is planning to pay recruitment agencies up to £100m to find 5,000 doctors — about half of them from overseas — to plug mounting staffing gaps.The recruitment drive over the next three and a half years is intended to tackle a growing shortage of general practitioners in England, as well as fulfil a pledge by Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, to make GPs available to the public seven days a week by 2020.The hiring is expected to start in the autumn and will enable recruitment agencies to secure about £20,000 in fees per GP, according to a contract notice published by NHS England this month."
https://www.ft.com/content/757ddc58...ation:daily-empty-email:content:headline:html
and here is the notice:
"...NHS England General Practice Forward View (GPFV) committed 2 400 000 000 GBP of extra funding to General Practice. The GPFV aims to deliver an additional 5 000 medical practitioners (doctors) working in General Practice before April 2020. A key part of this is to recruit a proportion of the additional general medical practitioners (GPs) from overseas from Autumn 2017 to April 2020. It is currently anticipated that between 2 000 and 3 000 GPs may be recruited from overseas...."
http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:332444-2017:TEXT:EN:HTML
The FT also says that:
"The decision to pay up to £100m to recruitment agencies is likely to fuel concerns over the planned sale of NHS Professionals, a state-owned agency that oversees recruitment for a significant part of the NHS. The agency is estimated to save the NHS up to £70m a year by supplying staff more cheaply than private sector recruitment agencies."