El Ministerio del Interior del Reino Unido ha rechazado más de 2.300 solicitudes de visa Tier 2 de médicos de terceros países en los últimos meses, a pesar de la escasez de puestos de trabajo que enfrenta el Sistema Nacional de Salud en Gran Bretaña, y la posible crisis que probablemente atravesará si las cosas continúan. en la misma dirección.
According to figures obtained by the Eversheds Sutherland law firm through a Freedom of Information request, 2,360 non-EEA doctors out of 3,597 were rejected between November 6 and April 5 this year. The figures also show that all 103 applications submitted by pharmacists were refused, and not a single visa was issued to them.
The Tier general 2 visa, which allows employers in Britain to bring staff from other countries to fill skilled jobs, has a cap of 20,700 per year, which cap was introduced by PM Theresa May herself when she was home secretary. PM May has been criticized a lot lately on her immigration policy which aims to keep net migration down below the 100 thousand per year. Groups and individuals have called and written to her to remove the visa cap, in order to avoid any possible health system crisis.
An analysis published recently by the Global Future think tank, shows that one in eleven health service posts are currently vacant. The number will surely increase, if the cap of the Tier 2 visa is not removed, at least for the applicants of medical fields. The report highlights that British hospitals are in need of at least 3,500 new doctors every year, in order to overcome the current situation.
More than a thousand NHS posts remain vacant, including 35 thousand nurse posts and nearly 10 thousand doctor posts, while the NHS services are heading for a £931m deficit, twice of what was planned for this year.
The Global Future study has called on the scrapping of the visa cap, when it comes to healthcare workers, highlighting that the UK has failed to attract medical staff from the EU, especially after the BREXIT referendum.
El Ministerio del Interior había rechazado las solicitudes de visa de 100 médicos de la India que ya habían sido contratados por el NHS, según mostraron los informes de los medios. Lo nuevo provocó críticas contra las políticas de May y él, pidiendo la eliminación del límite de visas una vez más. Los directores ejecutivos de King’s Fund, Nuffield Trust y Health Foundation se unieron y enviaron una carta conjunta a la primera ministra Theresa May, llamándola a revisar el límite de visas de Nivel 2.
Se cree que lo más probable es que mayo permita un pequeño aumento en el número de especialistas en salud que vengan al Reino Unido desde terceros países y se unan al personal del NHS.