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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Nicola Small

Thousands of UK-trained doctors flee to work overseas as NHS staffing crisis laid bare

More than 13,000 doctors who trained in the UK now work abroad, according to new figures that lay bare the NHS staffing crisis.

Many have been lured overseas by offers of higher pay and a better work-life balance, medics said tonight.

The growing brain drain has left the NHS struggling to staff hospitals with 8,549 doctor vacancies in secondary care reported in England in March.

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