Pay poor countries for NHS staff they train | Letters

Recruiting NHS staff from other countries saves the British taxpayer the very substantial costs of training them.However, the proportional financial cost to poorer source countries is much greater than our saving. John Holme (Letters, 21 March) mentions Malawi as one source for NHS staff: six years ago a study published in the BMJ estimated the loss of returns to Malawi just for doctors then working in rich, predominantly white countries, at $1.41bn. Of those countries, it was the UK that b