Recruiting overseas doctors

doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7359.290

BMJ 2002;325:290-291 ( 10 August )

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Recruiting overseas doctors

Overseas or in house? How best to "grow capacity" in the NHS

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The government has two to three years in which to cut NHS waiting lists $---$ a key measure of the impact of additional spending $---$ beforethe next election. Success will depend on engaging key stakeholdersin the redesign and reorganisation of services. The current policyto increase capacity in the NHS by employing overseas providersmakes an interesting case study of the tension between achievingresults and engagingprofessionals.

The policy aims to use overseas doctors to tackle long waiting times, focusing particularly on ophthalmology and orthopaedics.¹Services will be provided within a financial framework that isguided by the current cost of NHS procedures and will be governedby the same qualitystandards.

For policy makers the use of overseas doctors has the key advantage of avoiding the perverse incentive of "rewarding" consultantsfor undertaking private sector "initiative lists" on NHS patientswith long waiting times. With the NHS as . . . [Full text of this article]

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