By Nick Barlow -The Helsinki Times (Finland) - Latest figures show that foreign-trained doctors are becoming much more common in the wealthier countries.
For example, the number of doctors practising in Finland who have been educated abroad increased threefold from 2000-2007 and has continued to rise, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) [...]
Predictions that migrant workers will return home in their droves as the recession bites are a myth, a leading expert warns, while the UK immigration minister announces plans under consideration to add an ethical aspect to the new points-based immigration system to help reduce the impact of the UK draining away top workers from other [...]
This is the first independent assessment of the impact of the UK Department of Health’s code of practice on the international recruitment of health professionals. This 8-page report looks into the effectiveness of policies intended to mitigate the impact of ‘brain drain’ in the health sector.
The paper examines trends in inflows of health professionals to [...]
