The Chancellor of Exchequer’s 2020 budget announced plans to raise the Immigration Health Surcharge from £400 to £624 for most people. Overseas nurses should not have to pay this! They already contribute to our NHS through work, income tax and National Insurance
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The NHS is held together like glue by the people that work within it. The current situation with COVID-19 highlights just how fearless and hardworking it’s frontline staff are. One of those groups is its nurses, many of whom can miss family moments to care for other people’s family, and who help to bring life into the world and care for you when you leave.
There are more than 40,000 nursing vacancies, and huge difficulties in recruitment. This charge was already a challenge for many people, and to increase it just makes this worse.