UK-trained doctors ‘to get priority for jobs’ in Streeting’s 10-year NHS plan
Inside government’s plans to make NHS ‘fit for the future’
- Labour is set to announce its 10-year plan for the NHS this week, aiming to make the health service self-sufficient in staffing.
- The plan will prioritise British medical graduates for NHS roles, limiting overseas recruitment to no more than one in 10 new hires.
- This initiative seeks to reverse the current trend where two-thirds of new doctors joining the NHS are non-UK graduates.
- The strategy also includes measures to reduce the benefits bill by directing doctors to focus on patients returning to work, with work coaches placed in GP surgeries.
- Health Secretary Wes Streeting acknowledged the NHS's poor treatment of doctors and emphasized the importance of retaining UK-trained medical professionals.