Government 'reviewing' NHS surcharge for migrant medics
by Mattha Busby from on (#52NKN)
Home secretary says charge for doctors and nurses to access healthcare would be 'looked at'
The government is "reviewing" the surcharge that some migrant doctors and nurses working in the NHS must pay to access the health service, the home secretary Priti Patel has said.
In the daily press conference at Downing Street on Saturday, after the UK became the fifth country to pass 20,000 total deaths in hospital from coronavirus - behind the US, Italy, Spain and France - Patel reiterated the government's stay-at-home message and rejected suggestions that allowing non-essential work to continue sent mixed messages.
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