Workforce participation among international medical graduates in the National Health Service of England: a retrospective longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Balancing medical workforce supply with demand requires good information about factors affecting retention. Overseas qualified doctors comprise 30% of the National Health Service (NHS) workforce in England yet little is known about the impact of country of qualification on length of stay. We aimed to address this need.

Methods

Using NHS annual census data, we calculated the duration of 'episodes of work' for doctors entering the workforce between 1992 and 2003. Survival analysis was used to examine variations in retention by country of qualification. The extent to which differences in retention could be explained by differences in doctors' age, sex and medical specialty was examined by logistic regression.

Results

Countries supplying doctors to the NHS coul

SUBMITTER: Hann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2432073 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature