Migrant Architects of the NHS: South Asian Doctors and the Reinvention of British General Practice (1940s–1980s), written by Julian M. Simpson, and published by Manchester University Press in 2018, is a book which combines archival research, images and interviews to tell the story of the physicians who immigrated to Britain from South Asia and became general practitioners (GPs) during the first four decades of Britain's National Health Service (NHS).

The book combines archival research, images and interviews to tell the story of the physicians who immigrated to Britain from South Asia and entered general practice[1] during the first four decades of the National Health Service.

Simpson also argues that as South Asian doctors were hugely over-represented in the working class parts of Britain (accounting for 30–50% of GPs in many inner city and industrial areas) they were key to the NHS being able to deliver its core mission of helping the most vulnerable populations.

[1][7] Taking up positions in some of the most deprived regions of Britain between 1940 and the 1980s, South Asian GPs were praised by Lakhani as "highly-valued"[4] colleagues of the communities in which they practised.

[4] The book received international press coverage, particularly in the former British colonies in South Asia from where many doctors moved to work in Britain: