Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Would you please:

1. inform me whether the DHSC has carried out any research on the effects of recruiting foreign doctors through MSRA with ORIEL and quality of those doctors and effect of those recruitments on local doctors ?
2. inform me whether the DHSC is aware of any research on the effects of recruiting foreign doctors on local doctors? Is that taking away opportunities from local doctors to get in training and given to foreign doctors ?
3. inform me whether the DHSC is aware of any research on MSRA exams held overseas ? are they of same quality and same integrity ? and not compromised like in INDIA / Kenya where most of exams are compromised and broadly reflects in media?
4. Inform me under what policy foreign doctors are prioritise in this recruitment process as compare to local doctors ?
5. Inform me if DHSC or any government body aware of such situation ? and are they doing anything about ?
6. inform me will DHSC will look into the policy of keeping local doctors out of training and instead giving it to Foreign international doctors ?
Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Dr Usma Meer.

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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Health and Social Care's handling of my FOI request 'Medical specialty recruitment assessment Through Oriel'.

Would you please:

1. inform me whether the DHSC has carried out any research on the effects of recruiting foreign doctors through MSRA with ORIEL and quality of those doctors and effect of those recruitments on local doctors ?
2. inform me whether the DHSC is aware of any research on the effects of recruiting foreign doctors on local doctors? Is that taking away opportunities from local doctors to get in training and given to foreign doctors ?
3. inform me whether the DHSC is aware of any research on MSRA exams held overseas ? are they of same quality and same integrity ? and not compromised like in INDIA / Kenya where most of exams are compromised and broadly reflects in media?
4. Inform me under what policy foreign doctors are prioritise in this recruitment process as compare to local doctors ?
5. Inform me if DHSC or any government body aware of such situation ? and are they doing anything about ?
6. inform me will DHSC will look into the policy of keeping local doctors out of training and instead giving it to Foreign international doctors ?
Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Dr Usma Meer.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/m...

Department of Health and Social Care

Dear Ms Meer,
Thank you for your request for an internal review into the handling of
FOI-1516682. 
DHSC does not conduct internal reviews until a response to the initial
case has been issued. Although organisations can choose to conduct an
internal review to assess the handling process where they have taken more
than 20 working days to respond, DHSC uses the internal review process
once the initial case is complete to ensure that any exemptions that have
been used have been applied correctly, and that all information within the
scope of the request was considered.
 
We note from our records that the legal deadline for the above FOI is 7
August.
We will therefore not be conducting an internal review. We will respond to
your FOI request as soon as we are able.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Internal Reviews
Department of Health and Social Care
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Dear Dr Meer,

Please find attached the Department of Health and Social Care's response
to your recent FOI request (our ref: FOI-1516682).

Yours sincerely, 

Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health and Social Care

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