DOH is stuck with court ruling

DOH is stuck with court ruling (They are thinking really hard for the next move)

Medical graduates from outside the European Economic Area

The Court of Appeal have found against the Department of Health in consideration of BAPIO's appeal against our guidance to limit international medical graduate access to junior doctor specialty training posts.


The ruling means that we no longer have the option of issuing the guidance for 2008 on which we were consulting that prioritises UK medical school graduates for specialty training posts. We face the prospect of a large number of applicants competing for places.



Doctors from outside Europe have made and continue to make a huge contribution to the NHS. The issue is not, and never has been, whether they can continue to work as NHS doctors - which they can - but whether the taxpayer should be investing in training them instead of UK medical graduates.

We will now be studying the ruling alongside responses to our recent consultation on the issue, as well as exploring all other options available.

Future e-updates will contain more details on this important issue.

Click on the link below to read the document that was published for discussion and feedback on international medical graduates for more background information:

http://www.mmc.nhs.uk/download_files/IMG%20Consultation%20PDF.pdf