GMC scraps exams for international doctors at four sites as demand falls

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By Erin Dean

Tests for internationally trained doctors who want to work in the UK are being dropped at sites in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana and India due to declining demand, the medical regulator has announced.

The General Medical Council (GMC) said that from next February it would no longer hold Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) 1 assessments in Dhaka, Alexandria, Accra and Chennai.