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Samantha Murton: College of GPs President on the registration fast tracks for immigrants from the UK, Ireland, and Australia · The SME Stream

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  Speaker 1: Another chapter in the convoluted, highly confusing world of medical jobs.
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  Speaker 1: From next month, applications for certain roles from certain countries
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  Speaker 1: will be fast tracked the targets twenty days. Australia's just
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  Speaker 1: implemented a similar policy last week. Royal New Zealand College
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  Speaker 1: of GP's president Samantha mertens with a Samantha morning.
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  Speaker 2: To you, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: How are you Are we playing basic? Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: We're basically playing catch up with Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the conversations about this have gone on synchronously,
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  Speaker 2: so we knew that they were doing the same sort
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  Speaker 2: of thing that we also were doing. And we do
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  Speaker 2: work sort of hand in hand.
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  Speaker 1: It's not ketchup, right, are we actually do we have
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  Speaker 1: any jobs? It's just last time I looked, there was
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  Speaker 1: about a thousand nurses that turned up in the country
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  Speaker 1: and that couldn't find a job. It seems to be
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  Speaker 1: a convoluted mess.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and complex is exactly what health is. I think
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  Speaker 2: we do have jobs in certain areas, and so in
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  Speaker 2: general practice there are plenty of roles available. In psychiatry,
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  Speaker 2: there are in some of the antescetts's plenty of jobs available.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a matter of that being able to
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  Speaker 2: have someone who's coming not wait for months on end
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  Speaker 2: to get your registration.
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  Speaker 1: So it's in a hospital, I need an anesthetist, there's
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  Speaker 1: one in Australia and Sydney wants to move. So in
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  Speaker 1: other words, what we're tidying up here is the joining
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  Speaker 1: of the dots and the paperwork, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: get that done more efficiently. So there is a job,
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  Speaker 1: there is a person. We're just doing better administration.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is a much better administration.
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  Speaker 1: How is it possible that we're sitting here in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four having this conversation. We didn't do this about
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  Speaker 1: I don't know one hundred years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I think the thing about medicine is we want people
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  Speaker 2: to come in to our services that are safe, and
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  Speaker 2: we have slowly got better and better systems at looking
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  Speaker 2: at each other's clinicsions and saying yes, this is what
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  Speaker 2: safety looks like for a commission clinician. We can have
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  Speaker 2: it on paper, but it doesn't mean that that person's
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  Speaker 2: not a rogue. And so the joined ukness of the
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  Speaker 2: Medical Council's globally has started to happen. So it helps
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  Speaker 2: a lot for us to know exactly what other jurisdictions
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  Speaker 2: are doing, so that we know what we're getting when
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  Speaker 2: they come in.
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  Speaker 1: Are we attractive.
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  Speaker 2: We're attracted because we're a great country and we are
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  Speaker 2: a little way away but much better than some political
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  Speaker 2: environments that other people live in, and so there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people who do want to come. And
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  Speaker 2: we have forty one percent of our medical professions overseas graduates,
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  Speaker 2: so we do attract a lot High Thancd Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Good but positive. I almost had a health and positive
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  Speaker 1: conversation there were here, Samantha, So that worked out well,
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  Speaker 1: Samantha Morton, Royal College of GPS, because I am worried
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  Speaker 1: about the health system, the work. It doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 1: be functioning at the moment.