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. 2009 Jun 3;338:b1977. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b1977

Table 2.

  Percentage (95% CI) of doctors from overseas homes who were working in the NHS in Great Britain after qualification

Years after qualification, and cohort Men
Women
Total
2 years after
 1988 77.0 (74.6 to 79.3) 66.8 (63.8 to 69.8) 72.6 (70.7 to 74.5)
 1993 74.3 (73.0 to 75.6) 82.4 (81.0 to 83.8) 78.0 (77.0 to 79.0)
 1996* 62.8 (60.2 to 65.5) 75.8 (71.7 to 79.8) 68.1 (65.8 to 70.5)
 1999* 76.7 (73.2 to 80.2) 76.3 (69.2 to 83.4) 75.9 (71.9 to 80.0)
 2000 80.6 (78.0 to 83.1) 70.8 (68.8 to 72.8) 75.5 (73.9 to 77.1)
 2002 79.5 (76.0 to 82.9) 80.5 (78.6 to 82.5) 80.0 (78.2 to 81.8)
 Total 76.2 (75.0 to 77.4) 76.0 (74.7 to 77.2) 76.1 (75.2 to 76.9)
5 years after
 1983 72.6 (69.4 to 75.8) 73.4 (66.7 to 80.2) 72.9 (69.7 to 76.0)
 1988 69.5 (65.6 to 73.4) 67.4 (63.1 to 71.7) 68.9 (65.7 to 72.0)
 1993 72.2 (68.1 to 76.3) 73.6 (70.0 to 77.3) 72.9 (70.1 to 75.7)
 1996 67.3 (62.9 to 71.7) 79.2 (63.0 to 95.5) 70.8 (65.2 to 76.5)
 1999 70.0 (67.6 to 72.4) 74.0 (68.0 to 80.0) 72.0 (68.7 to 75.2)
 2000 79.4 (71.5 to 87.2) 67.3 (61.8 to 72.7) 73.2 (68.5 to 78.0)
 Total 72.4 (70.5 to 74.4) 71.5 (68.9 to 74.2) 72.0 (70.4 to 73.6)
10 years after
 1977 55.0 (52.8 to 57.1) 47.1‡ 53.1 (51.3 to 54.8)
 1983 63.8 (61.6 to 66.0) 66.0 (62.6 to 69.5) 64.6 (62.7 to 66.5)
 1988 63.6 (60.9 to 66.3) 62.4 (58.9 to 65.9) 63.2 (60.9 to 65.4)
 1993 69.6 (63.7 to 75.5) 76.7 (70.2 to 83.2) 73.2 (68.6 to 77.8)
 1996 56.7 (47.9 to 65.6) 50.6 (45.4 to 55.8) 54.4 (48.6 to 60.2)
 Total 61.6 (60.0 to 63.3) 64.0 (61.6 to 66.4) 62.5 (61.2 to 63.9)
15 years after
 1974 54.7 (52.5 to 57.0) 57.3 (53.4 to 61.3) 55.3 (53.3 to 57.3)
 1977 49.7 (47.8 to 51.6) 50.6 (47.7 to 53.6) 50.0 (48.3 to 51.6)
 1983 61.7 (58.6 to 64.7) 64.7 (61.2 to 68.2) 62.8 (60.4 to 65.1)
 1988 62.1 (59.1 to 65.1) 58.0 (54.3 to 61.7) 60.4 (58.0 to 62.8)
 Total 57.0 (55.6 to 58.4) 59.6 (57.4 to 61.7) 57.8 (56.7 to 59.0)
20 years after
 1974 56.1 (53.5 to 58.8) 71.7 (64.7 to 78.7) 59.3 (56.7 to 61.9)
 1977 43.6 (41.8 to 45.4) 47.1‡ 44.7 (43.0 to 46.4)
 Total 49.6 (48.0 to 51.2) 58.1 (53.5 to 62.7) 51.6 (49.9 to 53.2)
25 years after
 1974† 54.4 (52.6 to 56.2) 77.2 (68.3 to 86.0) 59.1 (56.7 to 61.4)
 1977 43.7 (41.8 to 45.6) 38.2‡ 42.4 (40.9 to 43.8)
 Total 48.8 (47.5 to 50.2) 54.1 (50.4 to 57.7) 50.0 (48.7 to 51.4)
27 years after
 1977 46.6 (44.9 to 48.2) 38.2‡ 44.5 (43.2 to 45.8)

Results include data from most recent survey, for doctors who indicated that their family home location is abroad.

Excluded: graduates who were deceased and those who asked to be non-participants.

*Results are for year 3 for 1999 and 1996 cohorts.

†Results are for year 24 for 1974 cohort.

‡For these cohort years, for women, the number known only to MCRG was 0. A standard error cannot be calculated, and hence the CI cannot be calculated.