Re: OUR NHS It is destruction by stealth Archived Message Posted by Mary on December 29, 2019, 10:03 am, in reply to "OUR NHS" 'The government should stop charging overseas doctors and nurses hefty fees to use the NHS in order to help tackle the service’s deepening staffing crisis, Britain’s leading health thinktank has urged. The King’s Fund warns that the charges – which are about to go up from £400 to £625 a year for foreign workers and their dependants – are a “perverse” deterrent to the very staff the government admits it needs to attract to plug holes in the NHS workforce. The rise means a health professional from abroad with a partner and two children will have to pay £2,500 a year. Boris Johnson has come under fire for deciding to increase the immigration health surcharge for migrants from outside the European Economic Area and to extend it to EU staff for the first time after Brexit, despite acknowledging that the NHS will need to recruit even more personnel from around the world if he is to deliver his key election pledges of 50,000 more nurses and 6,000 extra GPs by 2024. Richard Murray, the chief executive of the King’s Fund, fears the move may exacerbate staff shortages that are causing widespread problems for the overstretched NHS. The charge should also be lifted for people coming to work in social care, he said. /.. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/28/scrap-625-pound-surcharge-for-nhs-ovserseas-staff Message Thread: OUR NHS - Mary December 29, 2019, 9:34 am Re: OUR NHS It is destruction by stealth - Mary December 29, 2019, 10:03 am Laughing in our faces, cont'd - Mary December 29, 2019, 12:12 pm Re: Laughing in our faces, cont'd - Mary December 29, 2019, 12:25 pm   Searching