Health professionals back King’s Fund thinktank after ‘perverse’ rise in feeThe government should stop charging overseas doctors and nurses hefty fees for NHS care to help tackle the service’s deepening staffing crisis, Britain’s leading health thinktank urges on Sunday.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 dependents – are a “perverse” deterrent to the very staff the government admits it needs to attract more of to plug holes in the NHS workforce. The rise means that a health professional from abroad with a partner and two children will have to pay £2,500 a year. Continue reading…
Via: Call to scrap £625 fee for foreign doctors and nurses to use the NHS
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