The Government is cracking down on area-of-need doctors across...

The Government is cracking down on area-of-need doctors across the board, mainly because of the mess they have made by massively increasing the number of medical school places. There's not much point churning out 300% more interns if there is no more advanced training positions. This applies to GPs and specialists.

People like VGH benefit from AON because they can lowball applicants who will willingly accept for the opportunity to emigrate.

Recruitment for VGH and radiology firms is getting much more expensive, as they need to find local Royal college-trained applicants, and there's a fairly serious supply-demand problem in that at the moment.