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POLL: Is the NHS right to cut back on hiring foreign doctors? Labour introduced a law to "put homegrown talent at the front of the queue" after a rise in foreign recruits over the last decade. The NHS has majorly cut back on hiring foreign doctors under a new law prioritising British graduates - but do you think it's a good idea? Former Health Secretary Wes Streeting introduced the legislation to put "homegrown talent at the front of the queue" back in March. Analysis of NHS data by thinktank the Nuffield Trust found that it has so far been successful in recruiting from the British graduate pool. The figures showed that 28% of doctors accepting a specialty training place, the stage before qualifying as a GP or consultant, were from the "non priority" group, largely made up of foreign workers. That number plummeted to 1.8% following the law change in the spring. So what do you think? Vote in our poll and join the debate in the comments section. The number of specialty training applications rose from 16,500 to nearly 85,000 per year in the decade to 2025, in a trend linked to growing arrivals from overseas, GB News reports. Mr Streeting, who is now Defence Secretary, said the health service "had become too reliant on pulling the immigration lever". "It has been forced to recruit from countries on the World Health Organisation (WHO) red list, which have severe shortages of their own," he continued. "At the same time, straight-A students in this country have been locked out of medical school due to cuts to places." Nuffield Trust fellow Lucina Rolewicz said there was "no doubt" the law had "strengthened the domestic training pipeline for doctors". But she added: "The NHS needs to make sure that prioritising homegrown doctors boosts the domestic workforce without reducing the overall supply of doctors and creating concerning staffing gaps."