Overseas doctors on an England-wide trainee scheme are being paid less than trainees employed by trusts and face reduced benefits, finds Madlen Davies
English hospital trusts have been accused of using doctors from overseas as “cheap labour” as part of fellowship schemes in which they can be paid less than doctors employed by trusts and sent home if they become pregnant, The BMJ has found.
Foreign doctors come to English hospital trusts as “fellows” as part of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges’ medical training initiative (MTI) scheme.1 They work for two years in the NHS to gain experience that they will take back to their home countries afterwards. A proportion of fellows are sponsored, for example by their home country, and others are employed directly by an NHS trust.
In some NHS trusts fellows receive the same pay and benefits as employed doctors, but University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NH
The caretaker government of Pakistan s Punjab province has suspended former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif s seven-year sentence in the Al-Azizia corruption case. The decision was made under Section 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and was based on a higher court s approval. Sharif, who returned to Pakistan after four years of self-imposed exile, is seeking bail in the Al-Azizia case.
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