The Rural Doctors Workforce Agency says it would like to see regulation of overseas doctor recruiters to ensure physicians coming to work in country South Australia are prepared.

There have been two known cases this year where overseas doctors have swiftly returned home after arriving in rural areas, as well as a British nurse who spent less than 24 hours in Lameroo.

Workforce agency chairman Dr Richard McKinnon says it ensures doctors visit where they are to work before starting and provides a settlement package.

He believes other recruiters should be forced to do the same.

"I think...it needs to move in that direction, I think there needs to be a set of standards that we all have to go through and probably someone like the medical board or the clinical privileging committee probably need to set those standards," he said.

Follow up article: Job Distribution II.

John Sumser

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