The new immigration report released by home office placed non-European doctors in the least wanted category. Shearers and fully qualified cooks are in the most wanted category.

 

The NHS is the nation wide health care service supported by tax payers money in the form of Government allocated funding and was supported by a huge number of non-European doctors forming its junior force.

 

The senior NHS staff sitting in the immigration advisory board agreed with Home office recommendations that NHS does not need Indian doctors anymore as it has become self sufficient with increased number of local medical graduates coming out of British medical schools as well as the European trained doctors after the recent tie up with European union.

 

Most of the Indian doctors already in UK made it through to the training system in order to attain specialist qualifications. Some of them who did not make it into the training system settled into middle grade non-training positions. Lot of them returned home to India with utter disappointment along with loss of precious time and money.

 

Now what will happen in near future to most of these non-European doctors in current training positions in the UK after the completion of their training is not very clear. Already with a push for increased private health care services throughout the Great Britain, the senior positions for fully qualified specialists in NHS are being drastically cut down.

 

Indian doctors have been subjected to unfair discrimination in the selection process for training posts in 2007. Whether they will be treated genuinely on an equal basis with British and European doctors in future during selection process for specialists in NHS facilities in the UK remains to be seen.