Question follow-through · 61201
Doctors: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing restrictions on recruitment to enable NHS Trusts to recruit more British doctors trained abroad.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing restrictions on recruitment to enable NHS Trusts to recruit more British doctors trained abroad.
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
No assessment has been made. British doctors who obtained their medical degree abroad need to meet the requirements of the General Medical Council, the independent professional regulator of the medical profession, to practise medicine in the United Kingdo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Standards
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Coronavirus: Vaccination
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the public health impact of removing people with Type 1 diabetes from eligibility for the NHS autumn COVID-19 booster vaccination programme; and what clin
Orthopaedics: Waiting Lists
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2025 to Question HL4889 on Knee Replacements: Waiting Lists, what specific steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for (a) knee replacements and
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
9 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken a review of the medical exemption criteria for prescription charges, particularly in relation to solid-organ transplant recipients.
Cancer: East Midlands
27 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of cuts to Integrated Care Board funding on cancer patients in the East Midlands.
Prisons: Mental Health Services
27 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure prisoners with severe mental health needs in Category C prisons receive timely access to appropriate care.
Kidney Diseases: Health Services
16 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether kidney disease will be included in the next wave of Modern Service Frameworks.
NHS: Workplace Pensions
23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the tapered annual allowance for pensions on the level of retention of senior NHS clinicians; and whether her Department plans to
Antimicrobials: Rural Areas
23 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy services to patients in rural areas.
NHS: Drugs
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the war in Iran on medicine supply chains.
Medical Equipment: Supply Chains
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what contingency plans are in place if the supply of intravenous bags, syringes and gloves are disrupted due to the war in Iran.
Analgesics: Supply Chains
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the war in Iran on the current level of codeine and co-codamol.