To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information his Department holds on which European countries’ doctors in the UK (a) have come from and (b) are likely to come from in the future, based on current staffing and future projections, as a result of the EU Professional Qualifications Directive for Health Professionals. (186640)

The European countries that doctors come from is not collected centrally. The NHS Workforce Census does collect the countries where doctors qualified. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.

The European Union Professional Qualifications Directive may have an impact of the future flows from European countries because the directive is about freeing up professional mobility. The flow of doctors will continue to depend upon the requirements of employing organisations and the competitiveness of doctors applying for employment.