Overseas doctor recruitment saved NHS {pound}10.9bn but UK is failing to train homegrown talent, say MPs

An estimated £14bn in training costs was saved by the NHS hiring overseas trained staff, a report has calculated, but MPs warn that the UK is failing to secure enough homegrown talent and to compensate countries from which it has recruited staff.A cross party group of MPs has called for a more equitable approach to international health recruitment in a report published to coincide with the UK Global Health Summit.The report,1 by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on global health and security, estimated that £13.8bn was saved by the NHS not having to train the 218 727 non-British doctors, nurses, and midwives (around 35% of the total) who were in the NHS workforce as of June 2025.Doctors accounted for most of the savings, at about £9.9bn for 81 127 hospital doctors (average cost of training £122 012), £1bn related to 9070 GPs (average cost of training £109 004), and...