Extend visas for foreign doctors and nurses to tackle second wave, unions demand
OVERSEAS health workers’ visas must be extended “as a matter of urgency” to help tackle the second wave of coronavirus, trade unions said today.
In April, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced that foreign healthcare workers whose visas expire before October this year would have them automatically extended free of charge for 12 months.
However, healthcare unions Unison, the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have now written to Ms Patel to demand the scheme’s extension for the duration of the pandemic.
More from this author
In an exclusive investigation, BETHANY RIELLY looks at how the state targeted leading politicians and campaigning groups — labelling many well-known figures 'extremists' and 'subversives' for attempting to hold the police to account
On September 4, 16 Eritrean asylum-seekers were arrested at a protest against their country’s dictatorship and its supporters here. Since then, questions have been raised about whether the British authorities are doing enough to protect activists and asylum-seekers from the ‘long arm’ of the regime in Asmara
