Table 2.
Comments about changes to UK medicine which would increase the likelihood of doctors returning to UK medicine*, percentages and numbers: 11 and 17/19 years after graduation.
| 11 years after graduation |
17/19 years after graduation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | N | Percentage of commenters* (N = 215) | Percentage of those working abroad (N = 290) | N | Percentage of commenters* (N = 192) | Percentage of those working abroad (N = 277) |
| Political/management/funding | 52 | 24.2 | 17.9 | 61 | 31.8 | 22.0 |
| Pay/pension | 45 | 20.9 | 15.5 | 47 | 24.5 | 17.0 |
| Posts/security/opportunities | 40 | 18.6 | 13.8 | 26 | 13.5 | 9.4 |
| Working conditions/hours | 39 | 18.1 | 13.4 | 39 | 20.3 | 14.1 |
| Factors outside medicine | 38 | 17.7 | 13.1 | 30 | 15.6 | 10.8 |
| None | 32 | 14.9 | 11.0 | 35 | 18.2 | 12.6 |
| Retraining/accreditation/revalidation | 20 | 9.3 | 6.9 | 18 | 9.4 | 6.5 |
| Specialty related | 19 | 8.8 | 6.6 | 25 | 13.0 | 9.0 |
| Status, autonomy, morale | 15 | 7.0 | 5.2 | 23 | 12.0 | 8.3 |
| Other | 9 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.7 |
| Administration/bureaucracy | 6 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 14 | 7.3 | 5.1 |
| Private work | 4 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 6 | 3.1 | 2.2 |
*
Some doctors gave more than one reason and we counted each reason. Eleven years after graduation 75 of the 290 doctors who said they were ‘working in medicine outside the UK’ did not provide comments, and 85 of the 277 doctors 17/19 years after graduation did not provide comments.