§ Mr. Powellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what proportion of the 1,750 doctors qualified overseas, to whom the General Medical Council granted full registration in 1971, and the 6,712 such doctors to whom it granted temporary registration, he estimates obtained employment in the National Health Service.
§ Sir K. JosephI understand that in 1971 the General Medical Council granted full registration to 1,689 (not 1,750) overseas-qualified doctors and issued 6,341 (not 6,712) certificates of temporary registration Many of the latter were renewals on change of employment, and the number of doctors granted temporary registration for the first time in 1971 was 1,114.
Statistics about National Health Service employment of overseas doctors do not distinguish those granted registration in any particular year, but the latest available data show that at 30th September, 1970, there were 3,082 overseas-born doctors, in England and Wales, who had not been in the Service a year earlier. The 485W number who left National Health Service employment over the period was 2,697, so the net increase was 385.