mon 28 dec 2015, 23:12

British doctors are rare

Our editors abroad

Amsterdam –

The British health care relies on foreign doctors and nurses. More than a third of the doctors in the service of the national health service NHS is not in the United Kingdom born.

Photo: Photo Agency Dijkstra

It is also more than 20 percent of the nurses of foreign origin. Thus, there is except Luxembourg, no country in Europe for his health as dependent on foreign staff as well as Great Britain. That it appears from the figures that the Organisation for Economic co-operation and Development collected.

Most of the foreign doctors and nurses are coming from India or the Philippines.

According to the critics, be it in the Uk too few doctors trained. There is also too little done to prevent British doctors emigrate.

Ironically, the Uk is also one of the largest exporters of medical staff. More than 50,000 British nurses and 17,000 doctors have left the country for elsewhere to get started.