Post-Brexit landscape for European doctors
The report’s findings include, among others:
• there are currently almost 22,000 EEA doctors on the UK medical register with around 2,000 joining the register for the first time every year
• the top five nationalities on the medical register are the Republic of Ireland, Greece, Romania, Italy and Germany
• from 2012 to 2014, the number of EEA graduates joining the profession increased, and between 2012 and 2016 the number of EEA graduates leaving almost doubled—but 2017 saw this trend reverse with a 39% reduction in EEA licensed doctors leaving
• the specialties of ophthalmology and surgery are particularly reliant on doctors with EEA qualification, who make up 24% and 18% of the workforce respectively
• the contribution of EEA doctors to the NHS is also particularly significant in remote and rural areas in all four UK countries
Source: Report: Our data about doctors with a European primary medical qualification in 2018