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World Service,20 Jun 2005,23 mins

Migration Of Doctors to UK

Health Matters

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How the UK's reliance on overseas health workers is affecting the developing world. The programme looks at how a lack of doctors, particularly from Sub-Saharan Africa is being made worse by the large number of doctors migrating to work in the UK, normally to seek further specialist training. In the news a polio vaccination programme in Ethiopia and research that shows smokers are biologically older

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