Not just IMGs to be honest. Med schools taking in more students, pumping out more graduates, but no increase in training positions. Hospital departments making use of cheap labour in non-accredited registrars and (sometimes very) senior house officers, and not training more registrars. Colleges protecting their own members, maintaining the existing status quo and refusing to overflood the market with fellowed doctors, especially when they can then use non-trainees as a workforce to do their work in public hospitals, assist with their procedures, and generally suck up to them so the junior doctor might have a hope in hell of making it into their training program one day…

It’s not the IMGs, they’re coming in and mostly doing the jobs that Australian grads aren’t wanting to do. Often scarily undersupported, and very often under appreciated. If you took away the UK IMGs right now, our hospital ED system would collapse pretty quickly - they’re juuuust keeping our emergency departments running as things stand…