Question follow-through · 77378

Doctors: Emigration

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of doctors leaving the UK due to a lack of specialty training posts.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
13 Oct 2025
Answer
13 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of doctors leaving the UK due to a lack of specialty training posts.

  2. 13 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 13 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The Department has not made such a specific estimate. Data is published by NHS England on numbers of doctors leaving active service across National Health Service trusts and integrated care boards, but information collected on broad reasons for leaving is...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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