New UK visa rules mean foreign doctors will leave health service, says BMA

The NHS could be starved of doctors from overseas because of proposed new visa rules that would leave them “last in line” for specialist jobs, the British Medical Association has warned.

Reforms aimed at making it harder for businesses to recruit from overseas, overlooking British workers, could have “a series of unintended and harmful” consequences for the health service, the medical union said.

In a letter to the immigration minister James Brokenshire, seen byThe Independent, BMA chief Dr Mark Porter said the changes, recommended by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), could have a “devastating impact” on the 500 overseas medics who graduate from UK medical schools each year. Read More…

New UK visa rules mean foreign doctors will leave health service, says BMA