Indian and other overseas doctors working in the United Kingdom ( UK ) will no longer be able to have their specialist medical training funded by the government under a new plan to be unveiled soon. A UK ministerial group is preparing a move to impose the ban on training posts on all foreign doctors from outside the European Union ( EU ) in a bid to prevent thousands of British medics from facing unemployment.
Foreign doctors from outside the European Union, who account for half of all applicans for this year, are apprehending a ban on their specialist medical training that is paid by tax payers. It has been known that the British Government and British doctors have been very upset after the High Court struc the Department of Health ( DoH ) guidance issued last year that foreign doctors could only be considered for a training post if there was no suitable candidate from Britain or the EU. But this was successfully challenged in court by the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin(BAPIO), that claimed it was unfairly discriminatory.
