What are there so many unemployed Doctors?

[Acorn1]

We keep being told the NHS would collapse without immigration, yet over half of UK trained doctors can’t get a job.

https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/pulse-careers/ha...

[Collectingbrass]

Acorn1 said:

We keep being told the NHS would collapse without immigration, yet over half of UK trained doctors can t get a job.

https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/pulse-careers/ha...

1. Because it takes so long to train a doctor, 4 - 6 years for the medical degree & 2 years of foundation training to get to the point of the article. And given most med schools want quite a bit at entry, not just A* a levels, you really need to add another 2 - 3 years to that. 10 years is a LONG time in the life of a parliament Whitehall planning cycles.

2. Immigration =/= demand for doctors. This is more about the other end of the pay scale.

[DeadShed]

It’s a very specific type of job at a very specific phase of a doctors training. It has no relevance to the wider picture of staff shortages across the NHS.

[Eric Mc]

The thread title is a little silly.