International Recruitment of General Practitioners (GPs) Framework Agreement

NHS England General Practice Forward View (GPFV) committed £2.4 billion of extra funding to General Practice. In terms of workforce, the GPFV aims to deliver an additional 5,000 medical practitioners (doctors) working in General Practice before April 2020. A key part of the GPFV is to recruit a proportion of the additional 5000 general medical practitioners (GPs) from overseas from Autumn 2017 through to April 2020. It is currently anticipated that between 2,000 and 3,000 of those 5000 GPs may be recruited from ov...