Report: Doctors leaving UK to work in other countries for better pay, working conditions

AUTHOR:
Jesupemi Are
JANUARY 9, 2023 12:50 PM

Doctors and nurses are leaving the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) to work in other countries, the Telegraph reports.

According to the report, figures from the General Medical Council (GMC) show that in 2022, there were 6,950 applications from UK doctors who are registered and licensed to obtain a certificate that allows them to work abroad.

This was an increase of 25 percent from 5,576 in 2021, with around a quarter targeting Australia.

St John of God Healthcare, a leading provider of hospitals, mental health facilities, and community services in Australia, said it has recently made 206 offers of employment to UK medical professionals, after a four-week recruitment drive in Britain.

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Senior medical officers reportedly attribute the migration of doctors to burnout, high pressures on NHS hospitals, and frustration with working conditions.

Fergus Morris, a doctor who went from an NHS hospital in Staffordshire to work in Western Australia in 2015, said he has not looked back.

He added that he found the working conditions and standards of Australian hospitals, combined with higher pay, and an outdoors lifestyle, far superior to those in Britain.

“Obviously the weather is nice and there’s the surf and sea and sand; I thought it would make a break from working in the UK,” he said.

“But then there are so many other things; there are fewer patients waiting, you are able to see patients in a cubicle rather than a corridor. You get the time to examine patients properly, and to treat them, rather than just have to do everything so rapidly, and pass the patient on.

“I’m probably earning double what I would in the UK.”

Meanwhile, Charlie Massey, GMC chief executive said the council is aware that the doctors are leaving because they cannot tolerate the environments in which medicine is practised.

“Doctors who may otherwise have had long careers in this country are leaving the UK profession, talented individuals the system cannot afford to lose,” he said.

“At a time when patients face unprecedented waits for care, and healthcare professionals continue to be under immense pressure, we must do more to turn the tide of talented registrants leaving the NHS.

“If we want more doctors to flourish and grow their careers here in the UK, we must improve their working environments and make workplaces more inclusive and caring.”

https://www.thecable.ng/report-doctors-leaving-uk-to-work-in-other-countries-for-better-pay-working-conditions/amp

Yokolu yokolu, ko wa tan bayii.

The UK govt must learn from our mistakes and never allow those they educated with tax payers money to elope overseas into peotic justic of hopeless redemption.

Those unpatriotic ones from Nigeria who got educated with Nigerian tax only to abandon Nigerian tax payers and Nigeria whose hard earned money was used to educate and train them have left Nigeria for days, months and years after cheating the Nigerian taxpayers yet unable to make Forbes list while their parents they left behind still depend on same Nigerian health sector they abandoned as hypocrites.

Anyone trained with private funds can go but those trained with tax payers money must not be permitted to flee UK and abandon UK tax payers.

Why won't they not leave?
The government and party you push for has destroyed their hopes.
Now again , you are pushing for another disaster.

Our doctors and medical practitioners must come back.
We have an awesome opportunity to rectify the wrong.
PODATTI is the team to kickstart the resurrection of the nation.

Nigerian doctors would rather be in the UK. The pay is 10 times better than in Nigeria.

Even the grass on the other is not always greener as thought. So much for japa syndrome.Meanwhile the march to make Nigeria work continues

Racoon:
Even the grass on the other is not always greener as thought. So much for japa syndrome.Meanwhile the march to make Nigeria work continues

The substandard pay and working conditions in the UK is paradise compared to what you’ll get in Nigeria.

So the grass may not have been great in itself, but it’s definitely greener than the sludge in Nigeria

Racoon:
Even the grass on the other is not always greener as thought. So much for japa syndrome.

Bro it seems greener. It seems greener than the one we have here. Just that those over there, based on the standard of living they are used to, think theirs is not green enough for them.

It is like the daughter of a rich man complaining that a certain android phone is lower than her standard meanwhile that same android phone is like gold to some people from the trenches

You get?

Massiveglory:
Why won't they not leave?
The government and party you push for has destroyed their hopes.
Now again , you are pushing for another disaster.

Our doctors and medical practitioners must come back.
We have an awesome opportunity to rectify the wrong.
PODATTI is the team to kickstart the resurrection of the nation.

Are you sure you understand what was posted or you just rushed to come for the sake of getting likes and shares? Obidense are so dull.

ibkayee:
The poor pay and working conditions in the UK is paradise compared to what you’ll get in Nigeria. So the grass may not have been great, but it was definitely greener than the sludge in Nigeria

Please stop this kind of blatant lies. Cuban healthcare professionals are among the least paid in the world yet never abandon their parents and nation after being trained with tax of the state. The cuban doctors particularly are highly respected globally yet they do not flee abroad.

Nobody will cheat others and escape karma. I do not have a case against taking your services anywhere but if tax payers funds are used to train you and you abandon them, you will not escape the consequences!

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Where is your own intelligence
Rooting for expired old men to lead you
Monkey face

FreeStuffsNG:

Please stop this kind of blatant lies. Cuban healthcare professionals are among the least paid in the world yet never abandon their parents and nation after being trained with tax of the state. The cuban doctors particularly are highly respected globally yet they do not flee abroad.

Nobody will cheat others and escape karma. I do not have a case against taking your services anywhere but if tax payers funds are used to train you and you abandon them, you will not escape the consequences!

Well not everyone would’ve attended a public university.

But most importantly, the healthcare system in Nigeria is poorly managed, you can’t expect doctors, medical workers etc. to disregard their own self interest and ‘martyr’ themselves for Nigeria, a place where the leaders are using ‘tax payer funds’ to seek medical care abroad.

Humans will always be attracted to better pay and working conditions.

ibkayee:

Well not everyone would’ve attended a public university.

But most importantly, the healthcare system in Nigeria is poorly managed, you can’t expect doctors, medical workers etc. to disregard their own self interest and ‘martyr’ themselves for Nigeria, a place where the leaders are using ‘tax payer funds’ to seek medical care abroad.

Humans will always be attracted to better pay and working conditions.

What better pay are you talking about

Uk born doctors are moving out of the Uk to earn better salaries, that is why the NHS are recruiting doctors from developing countries to replace them.

Btw, Uk doctors are about to go on industrial action soon because of these "better pay and working conditions" you mentioned

thebosstrevor1:


What better pay are you talking about

Uk born doctors are moving out of the Uk to earn better salaries, that is why the NHS are recruiting doctors from developing countries to replace them.

Btw, Uk doctors are about to go on industrial action soon because of these "better pay and working conditions" you mentioned

Still better pay and working conditions than Nigeria so what’s your point?

I even said the pay in the UK is substandard/poor but it’s better than even shitter pay in Nigeria and possibility of shit pay that you’re managing being owed months in arrears

ibkayee:

Still better pay and working conditions than Nigeria so what’s your point?

I even said the pay in the UK is substandard/poor but it’s better than even shitter pay in Nigeria and possibility of shit pay that you’re managing being owed months in arrears

So by better working conditions and pay means by being exploited, working round the clock for 2 weeks without rest, having to live with roomates where the they can hear what i am doing and taking home low pay, taking 40% of doctors salaries as tax is what you call better salaries and better working conditions.

Even the bbc did a writeup about the working conditions for foreign doctors in the uk and yet nothing has changed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63141929

thebosstrevor1:


So by better working conditions and pay means by being exploited, working round the clock for 2 weeks without rest, having to live with roomates where the they can hear what i am doing and taking home low pay, taking 40% of doctors salaries as tax is what you call better salaries and better working conditions.

Even the bbc did a writeup about the working conditions for foreign doctors in the uk and nothing has changed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63141929

At least they’re guaranteed to get paid for their ‘round the clock for 2 weeks’ service.

And whilst taxes in the UK definitely take a fair bit, it is not ‘40%’ of the whole salary

For the average person, earnings up to 12,570 aren’t taxed. Between £12,571 and £50,270 are taxed at 20%. Between £50,271 and £150,000 will be taxed at 40%

Better than being owed months upon months in arrears, better than not even being able to afford some treatments at the hospital you work in

UK's NHS is in complete mess, Brexit hasn't helped either compared to expectations. UK's teachers are leaving too. UK hasn't recovered since 2008 recession, her military is also fast degrading as well. Poor mother colonialist.

FreeStuffsNG:

Please stop this kind of blatant lies. Cuban healthcare professionals are among the least paid in the world yet never abandon their parents and nation after being trained with tax of the state. The cuban doctors particularly are highly respected globally yet they do not flee abroad.

Nobody will cheat others and escape karma. I do not have a case against taking your services anywhere but if tax payers funds are used to train you and you abandon them, you will not escape the consequences!

Does taxpayers fund educate only doctors?
Even oloshos are trained with tax payers money
Footballers,lawyers,engineers,doctors,lawyers and everyone who leaves has benefited from so called taxpayers not just doctors
Doctors even give back more than others because as students they provide treatments and care.
What do lawyers and other graduates give back?
Stop talking about karma that is meaningless and stupid
You need to study why Cuban doctors do not migrate as you think they should and not make baseless and ignorant assumptions
Cuban doctors are subject to coercive measures to ensure compliance research and inform your self. There is nothing altruistic about them

ibkayee:

At least they’re guaranteed to get paid for their ‘round the clock for 2 weeks’ service.

And whilst taxes in the UK definitely take a fair bit, it is not ‘40%’ of the whole salary

For the average person, earnings up to 12,570 aren’t taxed. Between £12,571 and £50,270 are taxed at 20%. Between £50,271 and £150,000 will be taxed at 40%

Better than being owed months upon months in arrears, better than not even being able to afford some treatments at the hospital you work in

I was expecting this reply.

Yeah kiss the exploiter on the foot because he pays exploitative salaries on time. What sort of slave mentality is that.

I am out of here...cant continue argueing unnecessarily.

ibkayee:

Well not everyone would’ve attended a public university.

But most importantly, the healthcare system in Nigeria is poorly managed, you can’t expect doctors, medical workers etc. to disregard their own self interest and ‘martyr’ themselves for Nigeria, a place where the leaders are using ‘tax payer funds’ to seek medical care abroad.

Humans will always be attracted to better pay and working conditions.

Olobe, where's your shame?, we're Nigerians and we are proud like that. If we robbed the UK of her resources to build naija like she did to us, UK citizens would have been struggling to come to Naija and seek employment as shoe repairers.

thebosstrevor1:


I was expecting this reply.

Yeah kiss the exploiter on the foot because he pays exploitative salaries on time. What sort of slave mentality is that.

I am out of here...cant continue argueing unnecessarily.

It’s even sadder when your own people are treating you worse than the ‘exploiter’.

Arrivederci, you’ll be sorely missed

omonnakoda:
Does taxpayers fund educate only doctors?
Even oloshos are trained with tax payers money
Footballers,lawyers,engineers,doctors,lawyers and everyone who leaves has benefited from so called taxpayers not just doctors
Doctors even give back more than others because as students they provide treatments and care.
What do lawyers and other graduates give back?
Stop talking about karma that is meaningless and stupid
You need to study why Cuban doctors do not migrate as you think they should and not make baseless and ignorant assumptions
Cuban doctors are subject to coercive measures to ensure compliance research and inform your self. There is nothing altruistic about them

There's karma for sure bro. We don't give a hoot whether they give back or not. As long as we go over to enjoy our resources they stole from us to build their country. They can keep leaving while we keep coming.

thebosstrevor1:


I was expecting this reply.

Yeah kiss the exploiter on the foot because he pays exploitative salaries on time. What sort of slave mentality is that.

I am out of here...cant continue argueing unnecessarily.

Truer words have never been said.

Pakute:

Olobe, where's your shame?, we're Nigerians and we are proud like that. If we robbed the UK of her resources to build naija like she did to us, UK citizens would have been struggling to come to Naija and seek employment as shoe repairers.

*insult removed* if you want to be a martyr for Naija, no one is stopping you. If others want better for themselves and families, that’s their prerogative

Pakute:

There's karma for sure bro. We don't give a hoot whether they give back or not. As long as we go over to enjoy our resources they stole from us to build their country. They can keep leaving while we keep coming.

You are ranting
Sensible people focus on solutions
That is what brains are for
Not talking rubbish about karma
Is that the solution?

omonnakoda:
You are ranting
Sensible people focus on solutions
That is what brains are for
Not talking rubbish about karma
Is that the solution?

How did you know that, solutions are what the brains are for.

omonnakoda:
You are an idiot

Lol .
You are very funny.

ibkayee:

Oponu dearest, if you want to be a martyr for Naija, no one is stopping you. If others want better for themselves and families, that’s their prerogative

Why the insults?, ain't you no longer Olobe?.. Try & be sensible. A Nigerian talking about martyr because you feed off the crumbs they throw at you off the resources stolen from your motherland. If you've got any shame, you shouldn't be proud labouring as a slave for some people who turned your ancestors to slaves several centuries before you were born. We ain't leaving Naija to rot for those boasting being abroad, we are building this country to greatness.

Sulele04:

Lol .
You are very funny.

You are nearly funny

omonnakoda:
You are nearly funny

It is not to late start a career in comedy.

You will make a really talented clown.

.

But you know for me it's not my thing.

omonnakoda:
You are ranting
Sensible people focus on solutions
That is what brains are for
Not talking rubbish about karma
Is that the solution?

Solutions for what?, am I supposed to help UK find solutions for her brain drain?..C'mon, use this brain bro. My people are going over to enjoy what they stole from our forefathers and that's what matters most to me.

Pakute:

Why the insults?, ain't you no longer Olobe?.. Try & be sensible. A Nigerian talking about martyr because you feed off the crumbs they throw at you off the resources stolen from your motherland. If you've got any shame, you shouldn't be proud labouring as a slave for some people who turned your ancestors to slaves several centuries before you were born. We ain't leaving Naija to rot for those boasting being abroad, we are building this country to greatness.

I thought ‘Olobe’ was an insult, sorry for insulting you.

Yeah the same ‘greatness’ taking leaders to doctors abroad instead of in their own country.

I’m not boasting about being abroad, I just don’t think it’s unreasonable to prefer a place that offers better working and living conditions.