{"id":84631,"date":"2026-02-08T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84631"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:06:39","slug":"nhs-will-hire-foreign-doctors-to-treat-patients-in-virtual-appointments-from-anywhere-in-the-world-in-new-10-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/nhs-will-hire-foreign-doctors-to-treat-patients-in-virtual-appointments-from-anywhere-in-the-world-in-new-10-year-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS will hire foreign doctors to treat patients in virtual appointments from anywhere in the world in new 10-year plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/02\/07\/14\/106187559-15537855-image-a-10_1770473813421.jpg\" alt=\"NHS pilot scheme\u00a0with Asterix Health advertises itself to doctors worldwide promising NHS jobs 'without having to relocate'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seeing a doctor face-to-face at your local GP&#8217;s surgery could soon become a thing of the past under\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-86528e00-042e-11f1-b939-19dfab881f09\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">NHS<\/a><\/span> plans to allow GPs to treat patients &#8216;from the beach&#8217; anywhere in the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15537855\/NHS-hire-foreign-doctors-treat-patients-virtual-appointments-world-new-10-year-plan.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Seeing a doctor face-to-face at your local GP&#8217;s surgery could soon become a thing of the past under\u00a0NHS plans to allow GPs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/work-from-the-beach.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84633,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84631\/revisions\/84633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}