LONDON, ENGLAND, April 19, 2002: Thousands of senior resident Indian doctors in Britain could benefit from an initiative launched by the UK government to induct medical specialists directly from India into top, permanent posts in British hospitals. The initiative to recruit doctors working in India directly to UK consultant posts in psychiatry, radiology, cancer and cardiology, will end years of alleged discrimination against Indians, whose training and experience back home has so far been disregarded when they applied for top jobs. The ending of the so-called “ethnic penalty” for Indian doctors, who make up nearly a quarter of Britain’s state-funded National Health Service (NHS), comes with the launch earlier this month of the UK’s first India recruitment drive for 1,000 consultants. One problem with this plan is that it drains India of skiled people, just as does the UK plan to hire teachers from India.
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