Reverserbucket:
My friend told me that the NHS wouldn't touch them with a barge pole and in my experience,
Your friend is incorrect. I'm a doctor (UK medical school qualified) and I can tell you first hand that it's not the NHS who licence doctors but the GMC. The GMC will licence any candidate with primary medical qualifications as long as they can pass a simple clinical competency test, English language test and CRC. The NHS are desperate to fill positions in clinical and surgical medicine, whether they paid for the training or not.