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The NHS International Fellowship Scheme in Psychiatry: robbing the poor to pay the rich?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Murad M. Khan
Murad M. Khan*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, PO Box 3500, Karachi 74800, Pakistan. E-mail: murad.khan@aku.edu
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The NHS International Fellowship Scheme was launched in 2003 to recruit doctors from outside the UK to fill the shortage of doctors in the NHS. While the intended and stated primary purpose was to fill the service needs of the NHS, a secondary purpose appeared to be the opportunity the scheme would offer to overseas doctors to work in a ‘unique health care system’ (Goldberg, 2003). Doctors would be appointed at consultant level in the NHS for a maximum period of 2 years.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 28 , Issue 12 , December 2004 , pp. 435 - 437
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