Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Austin Mitchell (Labour), on Wednesday, 19 April 2006, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 123 members in total.

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TREATMENT OF TRAINEE DOCTORS FROM COMMONWEALTH AND FORMER COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES

That this House expresses its concern at the sudden and peremptory way the Home Office has rushed through without adequate debate inside Parliament or discussion outside it and with only perfunctory consultation with the British Medical Association, associations representing immigrant doctors and a health service heavily dependent on foreign doctors, changes in the immigration rules which will exclude non-EU trainee doctors from shortlists for jobs unless no EU or EEA applicants are available, impose a burden of costs, disruption and uncertainty on hospitals dependent on foreign house officers, as well as on the careers and prospects of foreign doctors training in the UK or hoping to come from India or Pakistan to make a career in the UK, and make nationality a more important qualification for medical and dental appointments than excellence, quality or language skills; suggests that to treat doctors from India, Pakistan and other Commonwealth countries in this fashion is insulting after their great contribution to the National Health Service; and, recognising that these sudden regulations have produced a state of alarm and fear among trainees from overseas, urges that the changes, insofar as they affect medical and dental jobs, both demanding a longer and more complex training than other jobs, be reconsidered and introduced again only after extensive discussion and modification and a substantial period of transition.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received an amendment.

TREATMENT OF TRAINEE DOCTORS FROM COMMONWEALTH AND FORMER COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES (1989A1)

The Early day motion has received an amendment sponsored by Robert Key (primary, Conservative) and tabled on Monday, 24 April 2006. It has been signed by 2 members in total.

after `officers', insert `or operating long-established training exchange schemes with Australia and New Zealand.'.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1989 

1989A1 

Session

2005-06

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Alan Meale

Angus Brendan MacNeil

Mike Penning

Linda Riordan

Subjects

Commonwealth Doctors Migrant workers

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk