Recruiting doctors and nurses from around the world

Today our Health and Care Visa opens for applicants, making it easier, cheaper, and quicker for staff from across the world to come and work in our NHS.

  • Healthcare professionals from all over the world play a vital role in our health and care sector, and we want to ensure that under our new immigration system the NHS can continue to recruit the best and brightest talent from across the world. 
     
  • That is why we have launched our new fast-track Health and Care Visa, which will reduce visa fees and ensure applicants can expect a decision on whether they can work in the UK within just three weeks, following biometric enrolment. 
     
  • This will mean that when our transition period with the EU ends later this year, we will for the first time in decades have a single, global migration system which will help ensure our health service is truly fit for the future.

Comments

Anonymous said…
You mean depriving third world countries of their best and brightest.
Chris Whiteside said…
You have pointed to one of the reasons why I think it is essential that Britain increases the numbers of doctors we train in this country as rapidly as is consistent with maintaining standards so we no longer have to do that.

But at the moment the only way we can staff the sort of NHS we need is to persuade significant numbers of doctors from the rest of the world to come here.

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