NHS NHS staff shortages leave doctors working in a system that isn’t safe Letters from Professor Jane Dacre, president of the Royal College of Physicians, and Dr Antonia Moore, a salaried GP A GP checking a patient’s blood pressure. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PAIt seems astonishing to block appropriately qualified doctors from working here when the NHS is under such pressure (Doctors’ visas: Overseas hires thwarted by pay threshold, 24 January). As a result, doctors are unable to deliver the standard of care they were trained to, and patients are at risk. I am working in a system that isn’t safe: no longer a balance of risk but a balance of least harm. I believe that if I refuse to work, patients will come to more harm because there is no one else to step in.

Source: The Guardian January 29, 2018 17:48 UTC