Britain to hire 400 doctors from India |
Hundreds of general practitioners (GPs) are being recruited from India to help fill the growing demand-supply gap in general practice and meet a UK government pledge to add 5,000 doctors by 2020.Health Education England, the non-departmental body of the Department of Health responsible for NHS training, has signed a "memorandum of understanding" with a major hospital chain in India.The deal with Apollo Hospitals will involve the transfer of up to 400 GPs to England but HEE said that the details are still under discussion .The Chennai-based hospital chain, which employs more than 40,000 people and has a £500m turnover, offers a diploma in family medicine which is accredited by the Royal College of General Practitioners.Apollo Hospitals said it signed the memorandum as a "starting point" to explore how both countries can benefit from "the mutual exchange of ideas and clinical staff in improving the education and training of healthcare staff" and patient care. The move to recruit GPs abroad comes after doctors` leaders claimed this week general practice is "crisis" and warned that the sector is nearing "saturation point".
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