In December, The Doctors' Association UK wrote to the Home Secretary outlining concerns that delays in providing biometric residence permits are preventing frontline doctors from working in our NHS. DAUK…
For nearly 2 years DAUK has been lobbying to scrap the surcharge. Just 24 hours after our letter was read by Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs the Prime Minister announces that health and social care workers will be exempted from the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Coverage of our letter to the Home Secretary asking for the Immigration Health Surcharge to be scrapped in light of the service of international medical graduates to the NHS during the COVID-19 crisis.
Charging overseas medical staff higher fees to use the NHS is a “gross insult” to professionals who are risking their lives to fight Covid-19, doctors’ leaders say.
The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has partnered with the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) and the Association of Pakistani Physicians of Northern Europe (APPNE) in writing to the Home Secretary Priti Patel about the unfair immigration health surcharge.
The Home Secretary today said: ‘sorry if people feel there have been failings’ over PPE. This is not good enough.
Following letters that DAUK wrote to Home Secretary Priti Patel and Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock, and coverage by The Guardian the decision to refuse a visa has today been overturned.
