During the British junior doctor’s strikes in 2023, the South Australian Government targeted the picket line outside St George’s Hospital in Tooting with mobile billboards touting the glorious benefits of being a medic in Oz, including an actual work/life balance (imagine) and gorgeous natural scenery.
And as of July 2024, UK passport holders can apply for three separate Working Holiday visas, allowing them to stay for up to three years.
A recent survey from the British Medical Association found that one in three NHS staff want to move overseas, with Australia as the top destination.
Anecdotally, one NHS doctor friend moved out to Victoria – along with her doctor housemate, her doctor brother, and her dentist boyfriend.
Despite repeatedly trying to make London work as her home, it became too frustrating to try and carve out the life she wanted to be living.
