{"id":775,"date":"2021-03-05T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-overseas-nhs-workers-day-recognised-in-uk-parliament\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:11:00","slug":"dauks-overseas-nhs-workers-day-recognised-in-uk-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-overseas-nhs-workers-day-recognised-in-uk-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK&#8217;s Overseas NHS Workers Day recognised in UK Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edm.parliament.uk\/early-day-motion\/58212\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/adobe_post_20210216_1029150.4287606214940507-1-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4991\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doctors&#8217; Association UK are delighted to see that our lobbying for Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK for frontline NHS staff has been recognised in Parliament. On the first Overseas NHS Workers Day, MPs Christine Jardine and Claudia Webbe tabled the motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>That this House supports Overseas NHS Workers Day in recognition of the extraordinary contribution of all foreign nationals working tirelessly in the UK\u2019s fight against Covid-19; applauds the efforts of the Doctors\u2019 Association UK with support from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO), British International Doctors Association (BIDA), Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA), Royal College of Surgeons and Unison for creating this awareness day to celebrate foreign nationals in all their roles within the NHS; notes the almost 200 different nationalities represented within the NHS; further notes that although the NHS is the UK\u2019s biggest employer, there is still not enough staff to meet demand; believes that the most meaningful way to recognise the contributions of foreign nationals and secure staffing capacity is to grant indefinite leave to remain in the UK; and calls on the Government to grant indefinite leave to remain to all foreign nationals currently working in the health and social care sector, and to their families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctors&#8217; Association UK are delighted to see that our lobbying for Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK for frontline NHS staff has been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,472,58],"tags":[483,484,38,435,385,202,455,456,42,485],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-overseas-nhs-workers-day","category-the-nhs","tag-christine-jardine","tag-claudia-webbe","tag-dauk","tag-dauk-news","tag-ilr","tag-indefinite-leave-to-remain","tag-nhs-overseas-worker-day","tag-overseas-nhs-workers-day","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-uk-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}