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UK to relax immigration rules for non-EU doctors

Recent figures showed that the NHS in England is short of nearly 10,000 doctors

By: Lauren Codling

THE British government will loosen immigration rules to allow more doctors and nurses from outside the European Union to come and work for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), the BBC reported on Thursday (14). NHS managers have been complaining for a long time that an annual cap on the number of non-EU skilled workers who can immigrate to Britain was making it hard for them to fill positions. The cap, introduced by Prime Minister Theresa May when she was interior minister, is currently set at 20,700 non-EU skilled workers per year. It was part of a broader effort by May…

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