Overseas-trained doctors ‘put off UK due to cost of living and low salaries’

The NHS in England has recruited larger numbers of doctors from elsewhere in recent years than usual. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

Doctors are choosing not to come and work in the UK because they are put off by low salaries, the high cost of living and poor quality of life.

Research by the General Medical Council (GMC) shows that doctors who shun the UK are opting to move instead to the United States, Australia and Canada to earn more and have a better life.