Twitter, a day in the life of. 1. Make comments that are perfectly sensible 2. Get accused of racism and xenophobia 3. Post factual evidence to back up your comments 4. Get accused of, variously, back-peddling, doubling down *and* proving your xenophobia 5. Repeat chorus to fade
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I agree but you are clearly singling out India for your 'evidence' so is it just Indian doctors you are pointing the finger at as being poorly trained.
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No, but a huge number of our doctors are trained in India so it is a legitimate concern
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Here's my take on it. It was a silly remark you made but it's been blown up out of all proportion. I personally can't agree with you because my life has been saved on three separate occasions by Indian doctors and multiracial support staff. Thousands will tell you the same.
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12.8% of NHS clinicians are overseas trained. around 6% from EU and the rest from non EU countries. The NHS already has 1 in 11 clinical posts unfilled (more like 1 in 8 in nursing) so around 100,000 posts - predicted to increas to around 300,000 on current trajectory
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we absolutely should not have policy of taking large numbers of clinical staff from countries which are short of them and who have put expense into training them (though as an aside, anyone who advocates free markets would not want to movement of talent to highest bidder)
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fortunately many of the nations our recruits come from have overproduced clinical practitioners and so have some medical/nursing/therapies unemployment. And schemes like MTI ensure people go back to own country after a period working in UK
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soundbite to say "train more at home" but serial governments failed to plan or invest sufficiently in training and it takes 3-4 years to train a nurse or AHP to entry level (many more years to develop specialist skills) and for Drs 5-6 yrs then 6-10 postgrad to be GP/Consultant
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we also need to do more to treat our people better at every career stage whether they are UK born/trained or not because many are leaving or going less than full time. None of these complex, long term problems have a quick "Magic workforce tree" fix
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