Effect of UK policy on medical migration: a time series analysis of physician registration data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Economically developed countries have recruited large numbers of overseas health workers to fill domestic shortages. Recognition of the negative impact this can have on health care in developing countries led the United Kingdom Department of Health to issue a Code of Practice for National Health Service (NHS) employers in 1999 providing ethical guidance on international recruitment. Case reports suggest this guidance had limited influence in the context of other NHS policy priorities.

Methods

The temporal association between trends in new professional registrations from doctors qualifying overseas and relevant United Kingdom government policy is reported. Government policy documents were identified by a literature review; further information was obtained, when app

SUBMITTER: Blacklock C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3476980 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature