Emil O W Kirkegaard

Czech republic has a long tradition of training doctors from developing countries - it’s our way of helping, as our medical schools are world class. Not all of them return home to heal children in warzones. Actually, few do.

Dude what. The Czech trained person is an Indian. Second picture. I was highlighting the absurd way of describing that person.

I think was it "The Affirmative Action Hoax" an excellent book written a few years ago that cited combined stats - sex assaults and malpractice by non-British doctors. Combined offenses so horrible it was breathtaking. Professional discipline? Slap-on-the-wrist & return to work

Affirmative action isn’t practiced by the UK for medical purposes. Less well-trained doctors from abroad are allowed into the system because there isn’t enough capacity in UK medical schools to train UK-born doctors.

If doctors trained abroad were eliminated from its staff, you’d have 23 fewer such cases (assaults and referrals for other reasons to the GMC are very rare - always remember the base rate), but tens of thousands fewer doctors.

Way to solve it is to increase capacity in UK medical schools, which is what the current government has done. It’ll take a few years to train the first cohort of students, though. As a side note, I suspect that UK-born minority doctors would perform much better than foreign-born.

On the last point for clarity, why?

Better standards of training and better entrance requirements. Training in the Czech Republic, for instance, is less demanding, and standards of entry are lower.