I’m particularly interested in the notion that my comments might be judged “acceptable” or “unacceptable”. Who gets to decide what I can and cannot say? And what happens to me if they’re judged “unacceptable”?
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Spot on
@JuliaHB1. Taking medical staff from countries with a greater need is immoral and hardly the solution to staff shortages in the NHS. The only long-term answer is more training of UK young people & much better retention of existing staff. Our piece:https://news.migrationwatch.org.uk/2018/05/30/staffing-the-health-service-requires-training-not-immigration … -
1. The Government / NHS needs to boost training for UK applicants and stop relying on immigration as a 'get out of jail free card' (in the words of the Migration Advisory Committee) https://news.migrationwatch.org.uk/2018/05/30/staffing-the-health-service-requires-training-not-immigration …pic.twitter.com/OC2skzQ7MO
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2. More needs to be done to retain those staff who are already here by improving pay / morale / working conditions. Unsustainable immigration levels adding to GP workloads - nearly 750k new migrant GP registrations in England, Northern Ireland and Wales in 2015/16 alonepic.twitter.com/bh1Y0p5GYt
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3. The NHS has a relatively high reliance on foreign-trained staff compared with other countries. Share of doctors who were foreign-trained in The Netherlands (with one of the top 5 healthcare systems in the world) was 2.6% in 2013 but 28.7% for England (Health Foundation report)pic.twitter.com/xech3et12r
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4. It is immoral to take healthcare staff from countries that need them more than the UK. As Canon Dr Giles Fraser put it recently: ‘Taking doctors and engineers from poorer parts of the world is a form of asset stripping." https://news.migrationwatch.org.uk/2018/05/30/staffing-the-health-service-requires-training-not-immigration …pic.twitter.com/k0O3vGENW3
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5. It's hardly a fringe view to say the Govt needs to provide more opportunities for UK young people to train for healthcare jobs. Multiple sources (including senior consultants, health service journals and medical industry groups) have made the same point https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-papers/category/8 …pic.twitter.com/A72n2dGT7g
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A) We don't "import" doctors as you put it in this clip. This isn't the 1600s. My parents chose to come here. b) So does this mean we should stop doctors coming here? C) Do the majority of non-British NHS doctors have problems with language or are you simply fuelling prejudice?
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As a GP I deal in fact as I hope your mother did. We are utterly dependent on our EU friends & colleagues many of whom have served their communities for yrs. UK trains inadequate numbers of Drs & at least a decade to train. Political & economic realities Brexit will decimate NHS.
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What HB doesn’t understand is that not only does it take 10 years to fully train a doctor but we in UK do not have enough training places to replace lost EU docs. It will take 3-5 years for unis to get resources into place to train. That is 10-15 yrs to replace docs leaving now.
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Those Universities that repeatedly said that Brexit will hit them hard?
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Yup. Those unis. My daughter wants to study medicine so we are doing lots of research on this right now.
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30 pupils from daughter’s school who were all A and A* applied for medicine only 1 got accepted at uni because of limits on number of places. This is why we are short of home grown medics.
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Paramedics were never entitled to an NHS Bursary.
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My dad is an electrician, it doesn't mean I have any knowledge about electrical machinery.
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My dad being a HGV driver hasn't prevented me from being a terrible driver
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My dad was a steelworker but I am the last person who should be allowed to assay metals
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