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community health services even the british medical association bma stated that it would be challenging for nhs services to provide adequate treatment to their patients if nonbritish employees including clinical staff 14 and doctors 26 were not presentif the immigration policy aims to reduce the overall figure in any way possible nhs should be ready to face the impacts although there have been acts to impose more stict rules and regulations for immigration to foreign nationals one cannotdeny the fact that nhs has been benefited by them and shortfalls of staffs in the nhs and care homes would benearly a nightmare without foreign employees however there are certain points to be considered to migrate to the uk and work as a health professional amid covid19 restrictions employers are still aggressively being hired from abroad and are provided a variety of opportunities around the country any health professionalinterested to work in the uk must first obtain authorization from uk visas and immigration ukvi and may also require entrance clearance before arriving to lawfully practice medicine the doctors must be registered with a license the general medical council gmc issues a license to practice which applies to all doctors in the uk the registration requirements in the united kingdom will be determined by a number of factors like the nationality the country where the primary medical training was received a period of postgraduate training or an internship the type of work one wishes to pursue etc foreign doctors seeking registration in the uk must verify to the gmc that they are qualified through the appropriate english language skills for this purpose either the international language test system ielts or the occupational english test oet can be chosenielts has been quite popular form of testing english language since 1980 however the oet was first presented on february 8 2018 it is an international english language test created exclusively for healthcare professionals and in the united kingdom it is available to doctors nurses and midwives it evaluates healthcare workers language communication skills in order to register and practice in an englishspeaking setting the test is aimed at healthcare professionals with a focus on reallife scenarios that medical personnel may experience another important test to be taken is professional and linguistic assessment board plab test consisting of two partsthe gmc confirms that the international doctors have the necessary medical knowledge and sufficient language skills to practice in the united kingdom one must have passed either the international english language testing system ielts or the occupational english test oet before taking the plab test anyone interested can take the first part of the plab test anywhere around the world but the second part must be completed in the united kingdomin the present scenario due to the pandemic foreign doctors taking the plab test to work in the uk has dropped by 85 however this hasn t discouraged the foreign nationals and there are still doctors applying for plab test for their better future the united kingdom is not an exception rather the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland has been ranked in top 5 countries with highest migrants that has doubled rising from 47 million to 85 million from 2000 through 2015 the migrants include all different professions including the medical profession for some reason foreign medical professionals have been attracted to continue their medical careers in the uk and the data shows around 15 of the national health service nhs staffs are foreigners in march 2021 nhs employees represented 212 different nations mainly focusing on doctors and nurses as of march 2021 a total of 168 doctors and 163 nurses of different nationalitiesare employedin different english hospitals and community health services even the british medical association bma stated that it would be challenging for nhs services to provide adequate treatment to their patients if nonbritish employees including clinical staff 14 and doctors 26 were not presentif the immigration policy aims to reduce the overall figure in any way possible nhs should be ready to face the impacts although there have been acts to impose more stict rules and regulations for immigration to foreign nationals one cannotdeny the fact that nhs has been benefited by them and shortfalls of staffs in the nhs and care homes would benearly a nightmare without foreign employees however there are certain points to be considered to migrate to the uk and work as a health professional amid covid19 restrictions employers are still aggressively being hired from abroad and are provided a variety of opportunities around the country any health professionalinterested to work in the uk must first obtain authorization from uk visas and immigration ukvi and may also require entrance clearance before arriving to lawfully practice medicine the doctors must be registered with a license the general medical council gmc issues a license to practice which applies to all doctors in the uk the registration requirements in the united kingdom will be determined by a number of factors like the nationality the country where the primary medical training was received a period of postgraduate training or an internship the type of work one wishes to pursue etc foreign doctors seeking registration in the uk must verify to the gmc that they are qualified through the appropriate english language skills for this purpose either the international language test system ielts or the occupational english test oet can be chosenielts has been quite popular form of testing english language since 1980 however the oet was first presented on february 8 2018 it is an international english language test created exclusively for healthcare professionals and in the united kingdom it is available to doctors nurses and midwives it evaluates healthcare workers language communication skills in order to register and practice in an englishspeaking setting the test is aimed at healthcare professionals with a focus on reallife scenarios that medical personnel may experience another important test to be taken is professional and linguistic assessment board plab test consisting of two partsthe gmc confirms that the international doctors have the necessary medical knowledge and sufficient language skills to practice in the united kingdom one must have passed either the international english language testing system ielts or the occupational english test oet before taking the plab test anyone interested can take the first part of the plab test anywhere around the world but the second part must be completed in the united kingdomin the present scenario due to the pandemic foreign doctors taking the plab test to work in the uk has dropped by 85 however this hasn t discouraged the foreign nationals and there are still doctors applying for plab test for their better future immigrating to other countries started millions of years ago and still continues for the purpose of education employment etc  