Immigration is falling

[morqthana]

Foreign doctors and nurses are increasingly shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric and rising racism have created “a hostile environment”

overseas health professionals increasingly see the UK as an “unwelcoming, racist” country

Foreign-born doctors and nurses were being put off by antagonism by politicians towards migrants, media coverage of immigration, the racist abuse of international medical graduates by NHS colleagues and racist aggression by patients toward minority ethnic NHS staff

"we are creating a culture where the rhetoric is ‘foreigner bad’. If you have never visited Britain and are looking at our media, the social media, press media, print media, what our politicians are reported as saying, I think that it’s not unreasonable to see that as a hostile environment,”

“Because [foreign health staff] see Britain retreating from Europe, ‘we can go it alone’. They see attacks on synagogues, they see anti-Muslim protests. They see the rhetoric that immigration is bad, [that] immigration is a major problem for the country.

“Why would you go somewhere where people are going, ‘we don’t need you, we don’t want you’? For them that makes Britain appear unwelcoming, racist. The prevalence of it [hostility to migrants] is significantly more [than] 10 years ago.”

“But the thing that has shocked me most of all is that the rising tide of racism and the way in which kind of 1970s, 1980s-style racism has apparently become permissible again in this country. I’m really shocked at the way this is now impacting on NHS staff,”




Rejoice, eh?

 

[Murdochcat]

Thing is when Labour were throwing money at the NHS after 1997 they made no attempt to increase training places for UK people , so they had no option but to import ready trained staff. This has continued for a long time and hence the lack of people being trained up and ready.

 

[IT Minion]

Thing is when Labour were throwing money at the NHS after 1997 they made no attempt to increase training places for UK people , so they had no option but to import ready trained staff. This has continued for a long time and hence the lack of people being trained up and ready.

Is that true? There was a large increase in UK medical training places during the Blair government iirc. Not enough perhaps but saying they were frozen is just wrong.

 

[Charlie George]

Foreign doctors and nurses are increasingly shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric and rising racism have created “a hostile environment”
overseas health professionals increasingly see the UK as an “unwelcoming, racist” country
Foreign-born doctors and nurses were being put off by antagonism by politicians towards migrants, media coverage of immigration, the racist abuse of international medical graduates by NHS colleagues and racist aggression by patients toward minority ethnic NHS staff
"we are creating a culture where the rhetoric is ‘foreigner bad’. If you have never visited Britain and are looking at our media, the social media, press media, print media, what our politicians are reported as saying, I think that it’s not unreasonable to see that as a hostile environment,”
“Because [foreign health staff] see Britain retreating from Europe, ‘we can go it alone’. They see attacks on synagogues, they see anti-Muslim protests. They see the rhetoric that immigration is bad, [that] immigration is a major problem for the country.
“Why would you go somewhere where people are going, ‘we don’t need you, we don’t want you’? For them that makes Britain appear unwelcoming, racist. The prevalence of it [hostility to migrants] is significantly more [than] 10 years ago.”
“But the thing that has shocked me most of all is that the rising tide of racism and the way in which kind of 1970s, 1980s-style racism has apparently become permissible again in this country. I’m really shocked at the way this is now impacting on NHS staff,”


Rejoice, eh?

Maybe the 20,000 unemployed British trained junior doctors will now get a job

Workforce reform call amid resident doctor employment crisis | DAUK

The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has co-signed a letter to the Health Secretary warning of an impending employment crisis for resident doctors.

dauk.org

 

[Murdochcat]

Is that true? There was a large increase in UK medical training places during the Blair government iirc. Not enough perhaps but saying they were frozen is just wrong.

They closed tasting training schools for midwives, and hence the shortage

 

[morqthana]

Maybe the 20,000 unemployed British trained junior doctors will now get a job

Surely you don't believe that the lack of career opportunities for newly qualified doctors is because of immigration?

 

[Charlie George]

Surely you don't believe that the lack of career opportunities for newly qualified doctors is because of immigration?

We obviously have a glut of UK trained doctors and other medical professions, so no need for as much recruitment from abroad, got nothing against foreign doctors etc when needed, but surely we need to prioritise the one's we are producing

 

[MNW67]

We obviously have a glut of UK trained doctors and other medical professions, so no need for as much recruitment from abroad, got nothing against foreign doctors etc when needed, but surely we need to prioritise the one's we are producing

I think the problem is that we don't have the capacity to train them all to the next level. Don't know why. So, instead we have been importing fully trained foreign doctors. Needs fixing somehow.

 

[Charlie George]

I think the problem is that we don't have the capacity to train them all to the next level. Don't know why. So, instead we have been importing fully trained foreign doctors. Needs fixing somehow.

So what do the 20,000 surplus junior doctors from this year do, and the 20,000 next year, and so on, Labour have provided 1000 extra places, next time i get a big mac from a drive in, i may ask the server for advice