{"id":125247,"date":"2019-12-28T14:07:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/28\/call-to-scrap-625-fee-for-foreign-doctors-and-nurses-to-use-the-nhs\/"},"modified":"2019-12-28T14:07:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:07:59","slug":"call-to-scrap-625-fee-for-foreign-doctors-and-nurses-to-use-the-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=125247","title":{"rendered":"Call to scrap \u00a3625 fee for foreign doctors and nurses to use the NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health professionals back King\u2019s Fund thinktank after \u2018perverse\u2019 rise in feeThe government should stop charging overseas doctors and nurses hefty fees for NHS care to help tackle the service\u2019s deepening staffing crisis, Britain\u2019s leading health thinktank urges on Sunday.The King\u2019s Fund warns that the charges \u2013 which are about to go up from \u00a3400 to \u00a3625 a year for foreign workers and their dependents \u2013 are a \u201cperverse\u201d 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 \u00a32,500 a year. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/dec\/28\/scrap-625-pound-surcharge-for-nhs-ovserseas-staff\" target=\"_blank\">Call to scrap \u00a3625 fee for foreign doctors and nurses to use the NHS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health professionals back King\u2019s Fund thinktank after \u2018perverse\u2019 rise in feeThe government should stop charging overseas doctors and nurses hefty fees for NHS care to help tackle the service\u2019s deepening staffing crisis, Britain\u2019s leading health thinktank urges on Sunday.The King\u2019s Fund warns that the charges \u2013 which are about to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}