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Top NHS officials have warned that UK immigration policy will lead to another Windrush scandal as rising numbers of foreign senior doctors are being forced to quit their jobs. Senior clinicians are being forced to leave the UK and return home to care for parents who are prohibited from coming to Britain by strict immigration rules.
Despite the NHS being under heavy strain amid the coronavirus pandemic, consultants, GPs and health workers told iNews that they are leaving the UK because of ‘harsh and inhumane’ immigration rules that affect adult dependent relatives (ADRs).
Earlier this month, Workpermit.com reported how the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) and five other organisations, had appealed to UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to change the rules that apply to ADRs. However, the government has so far been unmoved while the number of health professionals leaving continues to rise.