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doctor Nurses from foreign countries are being shunned NHS Due to the creation of a “hostile environment” Through anti-immigration rhetoric, According to the leader U.K.of medical staff.
There is a growing perception that Britain is “Unpopular” and “racist” because governmentof migrant Janet Dixon, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said the practice was creating risks for the health service.
Ms Dickson leads the body, which represents 220,000 doctors across the UK and Ireland, including GPs, surgeons and anesthetists. Tell The Guardian: “My feeling is that we are creating a culture where the rhetoric is ‘foreigners are bad’.
“If you’ve never visited the UK and you’re following the coverage in our media, social media, news media, print media and our politicians, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to view it as a hostile environment.”
She warned the NHS was “vulnerable to collapse” and losing “a sufficient number of staff to run services safely”.
“because [foreign health staff] Seeing Britain retreating from Europe, ‘we can go it alone’,” she continued.
“They see attacks on synagogues, they see anti-Muslim protests. They see bad rhetoric about immigrants, [that] Immigration is a major problem in this country. “
She asked: “Why would you go to a place where people are saying ‘we don’t need you, we don’t want you’? To them it makes Britain appear unwelcoming and racist. The prevalence of this [hostility to migrants] significantly more [than] ten years ago. “
A 2025 workforce report from the General Medical Council found that 42% of UK doctors qualified abroad.
“If we see even a small increase in the number of people they leave, we will end up with huge holes in our health services that they will struggle to fill,” the report said.
However, GMC released figures last month showing a 26% increase. overseas– Record number of highly trained doctors leaving the NHS.
However, the health secretary said recent reports also suggested staff were facing increasing levels of “1970s, 1980s-style” racist abuse in healthcare settings Wes Streetingstatement last month.
“Even if you have to wait a long time (I know that’s frustrating) or you feel like you’re being bounced from one post to another (which sadly does happen), there’s no reason to take that out on your staff,” he told reporters. The Guardian.
Mr Streeting added: “But what shocks me most is the rising tide of racism and the fact that 1970s, 1980s style racism is clearly permissible again in this country. I’m absolutely shocked at the impact that’s having on NHS staff.”
A spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: “The NHS benefits greatly from its international workforce and we will continue to support and attract talented overseas staff who want to donate their time, energy and skills to the health service. Discrimination against both patients and staff undermines everything our health service stands for – the NHS has a zero tolerance approach to racism.”