Fury as NHS recruits 100 doctors from India ...

[JimC]

Carry on up the Khyber, Doctor!

[mistermack]

It seems incredibly stupid to refuse them on any grounds other than competence.

After all, the UK loses doctors to Australia the USA and the like, and here is a chance to balance the account.

There doesn't seem to be any room for applying common sense in the home office. It's rules-is-rules.
In a way, that's what happens when you have a blame-oriented organisation. If civil servants see their fellows getting jumped on for any little thing, they end up with a cover-my-own-back mentality, and just apply the rules to the letter, and let someone else sort it out.

If you back up and defend the people working for you, they will have the confidence to make decisions based on their judgement, rather than slavishly following the written rules.

[Forty Two]

Fury as NHS recruits 100 doctors from India only for Home Office to deny them all visas

NHS bosses warn cap on visas for non-EU doctors leading to rota gaps and delays in patient care

Hundreds of doctors recruited by the NHS from overseas have been denied visas by the Home Office, leading to increased pressures in the health service.

NHS bosses said limits on the number of visas issued to non-EU doctors were contributing to rota gaps and delays in patients receiving care.

Some 100 Indian doctors are reported to have been refused for a scheme in the North-west that supplies junior doctors to 30 NHS trusts.

What a country! It hopes to survive outside the EU.

I would think that if they would complete this Brexit thing, then the limits on the nubmer of visas issued to "non-EU doctors" would go away.... they'd probably do just fine.