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Immigration rules are hampering the ability of the NHS to recruit doctors, health leaders are warning.
The number of skilled non-EU workers granted UK visas is capped - with the Home Office arguing the restriction is in "the national interest".
But NHS bosses say increasing numbers of doctors are being refused permission, worsening rota gaps and the waits patients face for treatment.
In the North West a long-running scheme has been refused 100 doctor visas.
The scheme supplies junior doctors to more than 30 NHS trusts, and bosses in the region have written to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Home Secretary Amber Rudd asking them to urgently look into the problem.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-4389896
Blind subservience to unachieveable (and undesirable) targets, when will common-sense become part of the criteria?
"the numbers the NHS can recruit is also influenced by other sectors from IT to banking."
Right, we need more bankers. I find it hard to trust a banker with my banking, and certainly not my medical care! 🙄
The number of skilled non-EU workers granted UK visas is capped - with the Home Office arguing the restriction is in "the national interest".
But NHS bosses say increasing numbers of doctors are being refused permission, worsening rota gaps and the waits patients face for treatment.
In the North West a long-running scheme has been refused 100 doctor visas.
The scheme supplies junior doctors to more than 30 NHS trusts, and bosses in the region have written to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Home Secretary Amber Rudd asking them to urgently look into the problem.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-4389896
Blind subservience to unachieveable (and undesirable) targets, when will common-sense become part of the criteria?
"the numbers the NHS can recruit is also influenced by other sectors from IT to banking."
Right, we need more bankers. I find it hard to trust a banker with my banking, and certainly not my medical care! 🙄
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