The National Health Service is to recruit scores of trainee doctors from India and waive normal competency tests to try to plug staff shortages in A&E departments.
Health officials will interview dozens of overseas medics using Skype video link next week in order to tackle an NHS staffing crisis that has left almost half of specialist training places for casualty doctors unfilled for the past three years.
NHS officials have set up an assessment centre in New Delhi and are considering 150 applications from Indian doctors. |
