Professor Graham Winyard says hundreds of medical graduates are unemployed because too many posts go to doctors from overseas
Posted on 09/21/2007 12:39:55 AM PDT by Stoat
Professor Graham Winyard says hundreds of medical graduates are unemployed because too many posts go to doctors from overseas
Hundreds of medical graduates are unemployed because too many posts go to doctors from overseas, it is claimed today.
Professor Graham Winyard blames the Government's "muddled approach to managing medical immigration".
Writing in the British Medical Journal, Professor Winyard said: "This has created a large surplus of applicants over available training places, making disappointment for thousands inevitable."
The drive to bring in overseas doctors began because medical schools were failing to provide enough graduates for the NHS. In 1997, a Government committee advocated a policy aim of being able to rely largely on UK doctors, and called for an expansion of medical school places.
This means the number of graduate doctors is expected to rise by 40 per cent to 7,000 in 2010.
Professor Winyard said the aims of the committee could not be realised because it is illegal to discriminate against doctors on the basis of the country in which they graduated.
Doctors from across Europe also meet the criteria for seeking a job in Britain through the highly skilled migrant programme, he said.
"Investing heavily in expanding our medical schools makes little sense if we cannot enable the extra graduates to pursue a career in medicine," he added.
Professor Winyard proposed a system where overseas graduates were considered for jobs only after UK and European graduates.
The Health Department said NHS patients should have access to the best doctors possible "no matter where they trained".
I have no idea.
***Medicare, which is the health plan for older people (I think 65 and up)...***
Yes, Medicare is for people 65 and up, and you have NO way out of it oncee you turn 65. Additionally, the payment for Medicare comes out of your S.S. payments, so it’s not free.
And it pays very little. But your own personal medical policy will not permit payment of anything Medicare denies. For example, your stay in the hospital is decided by Medicare, so your own medical insurance denies you any more time in the hospital.
***Thank you for that - so they will benefit if they reach retirement age? That’s sounds a bit fairer! :)***
NO! Not every doctor will accept Medicade or Medicare patients because they have to charge less. Even wealthy patients become “charity” cases.
***Am I correct in understaning that all Americans have to join Medicare at age 65. That the insurers force it.***
YES. You have no choice once you’re 65, whether you want it or not.
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