India, Nigeria trained doctors top UK blacklist

Written By @Bhadoosky
These are not good times for Nigerian doctors in
the United Kingdom as Nigeria ranks second on
the list of the doctors struck off the General
Medical Council, GMC, register in the United
Kingdom. This could have an effect on Nigeria–
trained doctors who want to practise in the
United Kingdom.
A recent statistics released by the United
Kingdom General Medical Council on doctors
showed those it has struck off its list.
The figures released under the Freedom of
Information Request by Daily Mail UK, showed
that three-quarters of the doctors struck off the
General Medical Council, GMC, register in the
past five years were foreign-trained with India-
trained doctors topping the list of foreign-trained
doctors of the GMC register in the past five
years.
Nigeria-trained doctors ranked second. Egypt
trained- doctors came third on the list.
The figures show that in UK, 194 of the 285
doctors struck off for misconduct or
incompetence in the past five years were
foreign-trained, while 29 of the 39 removed from
the medical register in the past year received
their medical degree overseas. This data focuses
on the number of doctors struck off in Britain
since 2008.
On the reverse side, doctors from countries like
Hong Kong and New Zealand have clean
records. Hong Kong has the best record, with
none of more than 700 doctors working in the
UK struck off or disciplined in the past five years
while New Zealand’s 600 medics also have a
clean record.