Partha Kar: We’ve let the medical workforce down. Let’s provide some basics

Huge issues are facing the UK’s medical workforce: angst among staff, battles for training opportunities, a lack of basic amenities, discrimination, shortages of posts, roles with no career progression, and a failure to support workers asking for pay reviews.Compared with its neighbours, the UK has the highest proportion of doctors it has trained who now work abroad, and more overseas staff are leaving the UK than coming here and staying.12 This follows a strategic move by the NHS to recruit medical graduates and other healthcare workers from overseas.The UK also has a big issue with healthcare salaries: however you cut it, doctors in the UK earn less than their colleagues in many other developed countries, which is a big problem in a global economy with a shortage of healthcare staff. UK medical graduates now face a bottleneck in terms of opportunities for training and access to specialist posts, leading to…
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