Abstract
The number of doctors coming to work in the United Kingdom from southern Europe has risen sharply, the General Medical Council has said. The regulator’s 2014 report, The State of Medical Education and Practice in the UK , noted a shift in the pattern of doctors from overseas coming to work in the UK.1 The GMC said that, in the past, the largest source of overseas trained doctors was southern Asia, but recently it has recorded a sharp rise in doctors from southern Europe. In 2013, more graduates from the European Economic Area (EEA) joined the medical register than other international medical graduates, the report said. A third (1840) of non-UK graduates who joined the register were from southern Europe, and a fifth were from Italy (616) or Greece (483). The GMC said, “We do not know all the reasons …
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