Foreign doctors - we DON'T need them

With all the furore over the al Qaeda doctor who was convicted of attacking Glasgow Airport last year, and the Jordanian doctor who was acquitted of terrorist charges, the question has been raised about the dependence of the NHS upon foreign doctors.

For years, one of the liberal left's arguments for immigration has been that we "need" doctors from abroad or the NHS would cease to function.

That is rubbish. The UK has 32 medical schools, which turn out hundreds of medical graduates each year, meaning that we do not need to import overseas medics in order for the NHS to be able to function! We have enough graduates coming out of our own medical schools to not need a foreign doctor in this country again!

A while ago, it was in the news that the government would try and crackdown on foreign medics taking British training posts to try and prevent our own new doctors facing unemployment. If we were in dire need of all these foreigners then such a move would not be necessary, but the fact that it is means that the foreigners are not so vital to the NHS as the left wingers would have us believe, and that we can staff our hospitals perfectly well from our own home grown talent.