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Help end NHS fees for overseas doctors, campaigners tell medical institutions

BMJ 2019; 365 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l2348 (Published 28 May 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;365:l2348
  1. Abi Rimmer
  1. The BMJ

NHS doctors from outside the European Union can be forced to pay £400 (€453; $507) a year to use the health service despite paying tax and national insurance, a campaign group has said.

EveryDoctor, a non-profit campaigning organisation run by doctors, has written to a range of professional organisations including medical royal colleges, the BMA, and the General Medical Council to ask them to join their campaign to end these fees for doctors.1 Opposition to the fees is already part of …

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