The NHS is struggling to recruit doctors domestically in Leeds as the proportion of staff recruited from the UK has dropped by 15% since 2015.
According to data collected by the BBC from NHS Digital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have seen a 15.2% drop in recruitment of staff from the UK as a proportion between 2015 and 2021. At the same time there has been a 15% increase in staff coming from the rest of the world, except for the UK and the EU.
Meanwhile the number of staff recruited from the EU has stayed relatively stable, with only a 0.2% increase since 2015. This means the NHS in Leeds is increasingly looking towards hiring staff from abroad.
