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Obstacles to progress

Distortions

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But NHS trusts have used agencies to recruit doctors from such countries, the

investigation reveals.
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One company, Remedium Partners, says it has placed 900 permanent doctors from more

than 60 countries into NHS jobs – and claims to have saved the NHS more than £100m.
But the firm is recruiting from countries which are not supposed to be targeted.
As well as supplying doctors from Nigeria and Myanmar, Remedium has run events –

often described as information sessions – in Egypt and Bangladesh.
Its founders' pages on social media also say it plans to visit Pakistan and includes an

appeal for doctors in Sri Lanka to get in touch and a testimonial from a Zimbabwean
doctor, now working for the NHS.
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NHS Employers, which represents trusts, keeps a list of recruitment agencies which

adhere to this code and urges hospitals only to use agencies which appear on this list.
Remedium, which is based in central London, does not appear on it.

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A spokesman for NHS Employers, which represents hospitals, said trusts and agencies

are asked not to undertake direct or targeted recruitment from any countries on the list
of developed countries, which has remained unchanged for several years.He said: "NHS
Employers manages a list of commercial recruitment agencies that have committed to

adhering to the UK Code of Practice. Remedium Partners are not currently included in
this list.”

"NHS Breaking Recruitment Rules with One in Four New Doctors Coming from 404
'banned' Developing Countries."
Daily Telegraph (May 2019)
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And the future ?
“ Yet the WHO predicts that the current global shortage of 7.2 million health workers will
increase to 12.9 million by 2035, with the poorest countries bearing the brunt of those
shortages.”

"Brain Drain: Migrants Are the Lifeblood of the NHS, 405
It's Time the UK Paid for Them "
The Guardian.(January 2015)
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The gap between talent champions (almost all of them high-income countries) and
the rest of the world is widening

(Author : ie poorer countries can expect to be less able to hold on to their talented people)