RCP president Professor Jane Dacre's response to the BMA survey of European doctors.
She said:
The government, the NHS and the public need to value and support all NHS staff, wherever they are from. Currently a quarter of NHS doctors are from overseas, and the NHS has benefitted from their talents, abilities and commitment to working with us in the UK – we must continue to support them, despite the insecurity caused by the Brexit situation.
Diseases know no country borders, and medicine is an international profession, with global cooperation in research, drug development, standards of patient care, and free movement of doctors around the world. This model has served the UK and the NHS well for decades – moving away from that model is a major risk to the success of the NHS.’