title: Workforce planning. Pressure is on.
abstract: The UK is very reliant on physiotherapists who trained overseas, who now represent almost a third of new entrants. Australia is the main source of overseas-trained physiotherapists. It the UK is to increase recruitment of physiotherapists from overseas, ethical considerations mean it should focus on the EU, the US and Australasia and not developing countries.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Social Sciences and healthcare, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buchan
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D001315:Australia / Q000208:ethnology; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005551:Foreign Professional Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006291:Health Policy; D010560:Personnel Selection; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce