2024-06-18 21:23:39
This is incorrect. As of 2023, 265,000 NHS workers described themselves as non British. As of 2022 ~10.3 million of the England and Wales population described themselves as non British. You are therefore more likely to have an immigrant in front of you in the queue. [Link][Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(8-0-24) Author
2024-06-18 21:46:08
NNN: this is correct. A greater percentage of NHS staff are foreign nationals than the general population. (19% v 14.5%). Among doctors, it is 36%. So a patient of a doctor is over twice as likely to be treated by a foreign national than to be one. [Link] (including data table). NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(10-2-4) Author