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Migrant healthcare staff still paying NHS fee
It has been revealed that many NHS workers were charged £400 to use the health service after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would axe surcharge.
A poll conducted by Doctors Association UK, and exclusively shared with the Guardian, showed that 158 NHS workers reported having to continue to pay for immigration health surcharge. This is despite the Prime Minister saying on 21 May that the annual fee paid by non-EU migrants to use the NHS, which is £400, would be removed for health and care workers.
The date of when fees will be scrapped is still not known and guidance has not yet been released by the Department of Health and Social Care. The Doctors Association UK said ‘the utter failure to follow through on this promise is an insult to our colleagues who have served this country during our time of need’.
Dolin Bhagawati, a spokesperson for the Doctors’ Association UK, said: “These workers are paying up to four times over for the NHS – through their service, taxes, this surcharge and in some tragic cases with their lives. It is not too much to ask that this government does the honourable thing: stop this extortion and scrap this charge as soon as possible for NHS and care workers as well as for their dependants.”
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