UK medical degrees \u2013 alongside several others \u2013 have not been officially recognised nor accepted as equivalent<\/a> to EU counterparts.<\/p>\nThis also retroactively applied to UK degrees earned prior to Brexit, when the UK remained part of the EU.<\/p>\n
For professions that are regulated, including medical fields, this has seen degree holders face two choices in order to be employed in France: either go through a series of complex procedures for their degrees to be recognised, or face having to re-obtain French or EU versions of the qualification to continue to be able to work in the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Medical professionals facing this situation in France are known as Padhue (Praticien \u00e0 dipl\u00f4me hors Union europ\u00e9enne en France) and face limitations on their work.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MPs called the limitations on UK degree holders \u201cabsurd\u201d during the debates.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHow could they have anticipated that, a few years later, their degrees would no longer be recognised in the European Union?\u201d said Mr Caure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cConversely, and this is the height of absurdity, the United Kingdom continues to welcome doctors who graduated from European universities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Caure believes France is lagging behind in resolving the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cOther European member states have implemented specific procedures only for doctors trained in the United Kingdom. France would thus be the only country depriving itself of these doctors, trained in the United Kingdom,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is in no way about circumventing quality requirements; these practitioners have undergone recognised training with high standards,\u201d said Sarthe MP \u00c9ric Martineau in support of the motion.<\/p>\n
Only 100 doctors impacted<\/p>\n
The bill received support as it is perceived to help increase healthcare resources in France.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will provide a solution for some citizens [who have difficulty accessing healthcare] and for that reason alone, it deserves to be passed,\u201d said Horizons MP Lo\u00efc Kervran.<\/p>\n
At the same time, several MPs raised concerns over how impactful the law would be.\u00a0<\/p>\n
By limiting the bill to holders of British degrees obtained prior to Brexit, only around 100 of the 19,000 \u2019Padhue\u2019 in France are affected, said La France Insoumise MP Hadrien Clouet.<\/p>\n
He called for the bill to be expanded to apply to all medical degree holders from outside the EU.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are only addressing part of the difficulties faced by foreign doctors,\u201d said Socialist MP Sophie Pantel.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are only scratching the surface of the overall issue of foreign doctors,\u201d added MP Jo\u00ebl Bruneau, member of the LIOT (Libert\u00e9s, ind\u00e9pendants, outre-mer & territoires) party.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a system that is truly outdated, that doesn\u2019t allow us to recruit qualified doctors from outside the EU,\u201d said Mr Kervran.<\/p>\n
For his part, far-right Rassemblement National MP Christophe Bentz called for French citizen doctors trained outside of the EU to also have an easier pathway for degree recognition in France.<\/p>\n
Government authorities pointed towards incoming changes to exams for Padhue to have their qualifications recognised in France \u2013 which will be simplified for those already working in the healthcare system \u2013 but said further legislative change needed to be passed by MPs to allow more doctors to practise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post-Brexit rules mean UK degree holders have been limited in their ability to work in France Around 19,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-773610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116094232436138254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}