Question follow-through · 61215
Doctors and Nurses: Overseas Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require British trained (a) doctors and (b) nurses to give a minimum of five years’ service to the NHS before working abroad.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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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 bring forward legislative proposals to require British trained (a) doctors and (b) nurses to give a minimum of five years’ service to the NHS before working abroad.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government has no current plans to introduce tie-ins for doctors and nurses working in the National Health Service. The Government keeps the funding arrangements for all healthcare students under close review.Later this year, we will publish a new wor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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