{"id":1190,"date":"2023-12-06T18:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/impact-of-changes-to-uk-immigration-policy-clarified\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T18:25:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:25:56","slug":"impact-of-changes-to-uk-immigration-policy-clarified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/impact-of-changes-to-uk-immigration-policy-clarified\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of changes to UK immigration policy clarified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) welcomes clarification from NHS Employers about what changes to UK immigration policy will mean for the NHS and our international colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NHS Employers has published an FAQ in response to the changes to the immigration system announced by the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A DAUK spokesperson said the changes caused \u201cconfusion, concern and heartache\u201d among NHS staff and their families when they were announced by Home Secretary James Cleverly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spokesperson said the announcement was lacking in important detail and the language being used around the policy change has impacted international medical graduates (IMGs) already living and working in the UK, and those thinking of coming here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the announcement, the Government said it would \u201ctighten the Health and Care Worker visa, which has seen a significant number of visas granted to care workers and their dependants, by preventing overseas care workers from bringing their dependants to the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NHS Employers said that these changes will only affect the care sector and not the NHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government also announced an increase in the minimum salary required for skilled workers from overseas &#8211; from \u00a326,200 to \u00a338,700 &#8211; and the more than doubling of income required for family visas &#8211; from \u00a318,600 to \u00a338,700.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These increases in salary thresholds do not apply to the Health and Care Visa route, NHS Employers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also said that Health and Care Visa holders will continue to be exempt from paying the Immigrational Health Surcharge (IHS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsemployers.org\/news\/changes-uk-immigration-policy-faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the NHS Employers changes to the UK immigration policy FAQs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DAUK spokesperson said: \u201cWe\u2019re grateful for NHS Employers for clarifying many of the issues around the Government\u2019s new immigration policy and what it will mean for people working in the NHS on a Health and Care Worker Visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Home Secretary\u2019s announcement lacked important details about what it would mean for them and caused a lot of confusion, concern, and heartache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that the language being used and that lack of information has had an impact on IMGs already living here and working in the NHS, and it\u2019s bound to make people think twice about coming here in the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis at a time when there\u2019s a staffing crisis in the NHS. There are thousands of vacant healthcare roles, and waiting lists continue to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re neither training enough staff nor retaining enough staff and our international colleagues are delivering vital care to people who need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWithout them things would be a lot worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) welcomes clarification from NHS Employers about what changes to UK immigration policy will mean for the NHS and our international&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,472,29,58],"tags":[38,621,27,35,42],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-overseas-nhs-workers-day","category-protect-the-frontline","category-the-nhs","tag-dauk","tag-img","tag-international-medical-graduates","tag-protect-the-frontline","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}