The NHS is already suffering as a result of racist changes to the rules governing non-EU staff, even as desperate NHS bosses scour Africa and Asia in the quest for staff to fill growing numbers of vacancies.
From next April, non-EU nursing and other staff earning less than £35,000 (i.e. most non-EU nurses) will have to leave the country.
The government has persisted with this policy, despite warnings from NHS Employers. Indeed the Migration Advisory Committee specifically decided in February not to include nursing on the list of “shortage occupations” that were allowed to recruit beyond the EU.
