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Authors:
- Alessandra Anzante, Employment Lead, RefuAid
- Dr Siân Jaggar, Cardiothoracic Anaesthestist, Royal Brompton Hospital
- Maria Burke, RCoA Global Partnerships Manager
World events have seen record numbers forcibly displaced from their homes – currently estimated at 103 million people.1 According to the Refugee Council, in the 3rd Quarter of 2022, 24,511 applications for asylum were made,2 an increase of 58.1% on the previous quarter. Government statistics tell us that in 2022 74,751 asylum applications were made (relating to 89,398 people).3
A study by Deloitte in 2017 surveying Syrian refugees in Europe4 found that 38% of respondents were university educated, but that despite this 82% were unemployed. It highlighted language as being one of the biggest barriers to re-entering employment, despite 63% of those surveyed wanting to continue their careers in the professions for which they had trained in their home countries. In the case of anaesthetics (and medicine as a whole), there are significant challenges for them in entering UK practice.
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