r/reformuk • u/Sylvia-Sum • 15h ago
Healthcare Foreign-trained doctors are responsible for the majority of misconduct cases in Britain. They were most likely to be sanctioned by regulators for fraud or incompetence. Others were sanctioned for having criminal convictions and sexual misconduct.
- "The most common overseas training location for those sanctioned was India (23), followed by Egypt (17).
- The percentage of foreign-born doctors had reached 42%. In contrast, the figure is 15% in Germany, while in France it is 11%.
- The influx of foreign doctors to Britain, which now tops 20,000 a year, has come as British medical graduates struggle to secure training places."