Given the salaries and working conditions, I imagine the increase in training won’t fix the existing issues of migration to OZ,NZ, CAN and the US
>Last year, 59% of new registrations to the General Medical Council register in England had been trained by other countries, and this number continues to rise, highlighting how far short we are in fulfilling our commitment to the World Health Organization code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel to ensure an adequate domestic supply of health workers so that we cease to weaken health systems in low-and middle-income countries by actively recruiting their precious doctors and nurses on such an industrial scale.
>The number of medical student training places in the UK needs to double. This should not be as expensive to Treasury as feared, as the current putative costs are artificially set and do not reflect actual expenditure incurred by student training, either in the universities or in the health service.
Prof Jenkins
Or – and hear me out – *halve* the number of patients treated.
Easily achieved when you privatise the NHS.
The UK is rapidly outsourcing everything as the government sells off what little we have left.
The recent power shortages and price hikes are entirely because the private companies running the energy market were after short term profits at the expense of long term investment under the deluded assessment we’d be able to just buy electricity and gas from Norway at reasonable spot prices forever, to the point Norway have said they’re no longer going to build export pipelines and cables since they’re not willing to be Europe’s power plant at the expense of their own infrastructure.
Doctors are sadly In the same boat, we’ve neglected training and recruitment for years on the basis we could just buy then in from overseas forever…
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Given the salaries and working conditions, I imagine the increase in training won’t fix the existing issues of migration to OZ,NZ, CAN and the US
>Last year, 59% of new registrations to the General Medical Council register in England had been trained by other countries, and this number continues to rise, highlighting how far short we are in fulfilling our commitment to the World Health Organization code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel to ensure an adequate domestic supply of health workers so that we cease to weaken health systems in low-and middle-income countries by actively recruiting their precious doctors and nurses on such an industrial scale.
>The number of medical student training places in the UK needs to double. This should not be as expensive to Treasury as feared, as the current putative costs are artificially set and do not reflect actual expenditure incurred by student training, either in the universities or in the health service.
Prof Jenkins
Or – and hear me out – *halve* the number of patients treated.
Easily achieved when you privatise the NHS.
The UK is rapidly outsourcing everything as the government sells off what little we have left.
The recent power shortages and price hikes are entirely because the private companies running the energy market were after short term profits at the expense of long term investment under the deluded assessment we’d be able to just buy electricity and gas from Norway at reasonable spot prices forever, to the point Norway have said they’re no longer going to build export pipelines and cables since they’re not willing to be Europe’s power plant at the expense of their own infrastructure.
Doctors are sadly In the same boat, we’ve neglected training and recruitment for years on the basis we could just buy then in from overseas forever…