Ministers have been urged to boost medical school places after figures revealed that more foreign doctors joined the NHS last year than the number of medical students who enrolled on courses.
Foreign citizens made up 46 per cent of all doctors joining the NHS in England in 2022, according to the latest healthcare workforce statistics.
A total of 12,148 doctors joined from abroad compared with 13,516 British doctors last year. The vast majority of those recruited from overseas — 10,193 — were from outside the European Union.
Research by the think tank Migration Watch UK found that the total of foreign doctors was 73 per cent higher than the number of British students who enrolled to train as doctors in England’s medical schools in 2022-23.
