BMJ 2006;332 (22 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7547.0-f
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A very British muddle
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The latest row in Britain's NHS is about overseas doctors. The Department of Health last month announced that international medical graduates (from outside the European Union) in training posts will now need a work permit before taking such posts. This puts them in the same position as most non-EU nationals seeking to work in the UK, but doctors in training had until now been exempt.
Not surprisingly, this has caused anger among overseas graduates currently in training (15 April, p 913; bmj.com/cgi/eletters/332/7544/744-a), who now see only uncertainty when their current post comes to an end. As Lynn Eaton explains on p 932, the new rule seems to have come about because the NHS has moved from shortage to surplus. Once short of doctors and desperate to recruit from outside the UK, the NHS now may have enough applicants from among UK and European graduates; indeed, last summer
Jane Smith, deputy editor
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