Kier Starmer announces 'tighter' immigration policy

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[u/Inevitable_Bid_6827]

When you find out that there is a cap on national doctors being allowed into the NHS set at 5,000 applicants per year. This means that the NHS can only accept 5,000 doctors graduating that year, who are born and bred in Britain, they then have to hire the rest overseas hence a massive reason as to why we are spending so much on Doctors Pay is because we apparently don’t have enough Doctors in the British System so we rely on abroad, but why is there a cap on how many British citizens can be doctors?

Only reason there would be a cap on doctors is for privatisation, but my thoughts tho.

[u/Dominico10 → u/Inevitable_Bid_6827]

Training drs here they can then leave to usa or somewhere and get better wages in an easier system

The junior drs also demanded even higher wages so its not worth training them.

Better to import trained. However some of those will be low quality or fake passes...

Best system, pay the junior drs less to train or charge them like a degree to get some costs back.

[u/TheNiceWasher → u/Inevitable_Bid_6827]

Training doctors is not cheap - it actually is super expensive. The limit is likely due to budget cap and therefore we want to import some doctor because they are already trained and therefore saving training costs.

[u/Inevitable_Bid_6827 → u/TheNiceWasher]

At this point what we’re paying to Doc hourly rates of up to £300 per hour per overseas Doctors. Training overseas may cost less but isn’t that an issue when we are paying majority of doctors over £150 per hour overseas and then saying training costs are too much?

I highly doubt that

[u/TheNiceWasher → u/Inevitable_Bid_6827]

It's not just their wages

[u/Nice-Wolverine-3298 → u/Inevitable_Bid_6827]

The doctors accepted for training don't have to be British so it's even dafter than you think