House of Lords rules against government's restriction on foreign doctors

doi:10.1136/bmj.39574.363924.DB

BMJ 2008;336:1037 (10 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.39574.363924.DB

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House of Lords rules against government’s restriction on foreign doctors

Clare Dyer

¹ BMJ

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Guidance from the UK government that restricts the right ofthousands of foreign doctors to work in the NHS was ruled unlawfulby the United Kingdom’s highest court, the House of Lords,last week.

The law lords’ ruling, by a 4:1 majority, is a victoryfor the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO),which challenged the guidance, issued two years ago by the healthsecretary at the time, Patricia Hewitt. It should secure thefuture for thousands of doctors, mainly from the Indian subcontinent,who were encouraged to come to the UK under the highly skilledmigrant programme to help staff the NHS.

The guidance to NHS employers was that doctors in the UK underthe programme whose leave to remain was to expire before theend date of any training post on offer should be offered thepost only if there were no suitable candidates from the . . . [Full text of this article]

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