Doctors will leave the nhs to work abroad, in countries including australia and new zealand. Our Health Reporterjim reed has been looking into this. Weve been trying to answer that question, whether weve been seeing a large exodus, as is being feared, of nhs doctors going overseas. Lets begin by looking at the bigger picture. This graph is showing as the proportion of uk nhs doctors that arejoining and the proportion of uk nhs doctors that are joining and leaving the proportion of uk nhs doctors that arejoining and leaving each year. The numberjoining here in read has actually been rising as weve been recruiting more foreign doctors from overseas into the health service. The number in blue is the number leaving, and actually, it has remained pretty constant over time at about 15 . This is the number of doctors leaving for any reason, so that could be retiring, moving into private practice, it could be going abroad, and there has been some quite aggressive recruiting of nhs doctors by o
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