Radiology, psychiatry, and paediatrics posts are put on national shortage list

Abstract

Consultant clinical radiologists, psychiatry core trainees, and staff grade paediatricians have all been placed on the national shortage occupation list, the government’s Migration Advisory Committee has said in a review of the list.1 The shortage occupation list is an official list of occupations for which there are not enough UK workers to fill vacancies. Employers wanting to recruit someone from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to fill a vacancy in a job that is on the list can do so without needing to carry out a resident labour market test. In paediatrics the number of staff, associate specialist, and specialty (SAS) doctors fell …