HL Deb 11 December 1997 vol 584 c55WA
The Earl of Munster

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What statistics they have regarding graduates from British medical schools emigrating abroad.

Baroness Jay of Paddington

Evidence of doctors going abroad is available from studies published in 1991 by Professor James Parkhouse. This gives the results of surveys of doctors who qualified in 1974, 1977, 1980 and 1983. The department has commissioned further cohort studies of doctors' careers by the Medical Careers Research Group at the Oxford Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology. These are examining career patterns of doctors who qualified in 1988, 1993 and 1996, as well as some of the cohorts surveyed originally by Professor Parkhouse. The studies, which collect data via questionnaires, continue to look at wastage from the medical profession including reasons why doctors choose to go abroad.