
In the Herald yesterday, the above and:
Funding to help refugee doctors return to the medical profession in the UK is almost doubling after the Scottish Government announced an additional £190,023 for the Bridges Programmes’ Refugee Doctors Programme. The investment will help medically trained refugees gain General Medical Council (GMC) registration so they can practise in the UK, while bringing the total number of doctors supported by the Scottish Government through the scheme to more than 100.
These are small numbers but remember:

From Scottish medical training statistics: FOI release published today, the above, revealing year-on-year increases in the number completing medicine degrees.
There are no precise data for England but the annual figure is estimated at 9 200.
With ten times the population, you might have expected England to train 10 times the Scottish figure of 1 475 or 14 750.
They only trained 9 200, only 62% of the Scottish figure.
Sources:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202600503588/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/473206/medical-graduates-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
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