Will prioritising UK medical graduates create a damaging ‘two-tier’ system?

By Claudia Tanner

Doctors.net.uk takes a look at how the training bottleneck crisis developed and the case for and against prioritising UK medical graduates over international medical graduates, plus the unresolved questions remaining.

The government's plan to fast-track legislation prioritising UK-trained doctors for NHS jobs has sparked warnings it could create a discriminatory "two-tier system" that undervalues international medical graduates and contribute further to their growing exodus from the health service.