Immigrants: Health Services
(asked on 22nd April 2020) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of removing the Immigration Health Surcharge for NHS workers during the covid-19 outbreak.
This question was answered on 29th April 2020
We welcome the vital contribution NHS staff from across the globe make to our healthcare system.
The Home Secretary announced on 31 March 2020 the Home Office will automatically extend the visa of any NHS doctor, nurse or paramedic, where it will expire before 1 October 2020, for 12 months, free of charge. This extension will also apply to their families and includes an exemption from payment of the immigration health surcharge.