Britain’s immigration regulations are relaxed, making it easier for foreign doctors and nurses to obtain visas.

　　China Overseas Chinese Network, June 15th According to WeChat official account, the European version of Sing Tao Daily, the British government will relax the immigration regulations and allow more non-EU workers to enter the UK.

　　The British Home Office announced the relaxation of immigration regulations on the 15th local time to allow more non-EU workers to enter the UK.

　　The Ministry of the Interior has determined that foreign doctors and nurses will be exempted from the government’s visa quota.

　　The visa quota was introduced by Prime Minister Theresa May during his tenure as Interior Minister. She set a limit for non-EU skilled workers, with 20,700 places a year.

　　However, the head of the National Health Service has made it clear that this makes it very difficult to hire enough people.

　　Saffron Cordery of NHS Providers, a business organization, said, "This is the right direction." "For the institutions that are suffering from difficulties in hiring doctors and nurses in the country, they can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

　　Alp Mehmet, a pressure organization that has always opposed liberalization, also said that he accepted the change, but it was not a long-term solution. "Don’t forget that the most important thing is to train local people."

　　The proposed change is aimed at Tier 2 visas, which are used by skilled workers from non-EEA and Switzerland to enter the UK for work.

　　The Financial Times reported on Tuesday (12th) that in the first five months of this year, 2,360 doctors outside the European Economic Area had their visa applications rejected. In April, after the applications of 100 Indian doctors were rejected, the National Health Service issued a warning that it was difficult to apply.

　　NHS There are currently 35,000 nurses vacant in England, and nearly 10,000 doctor positions are vacant.

　　Global Future, a think tank, says that 12.5% of NHS employees in England come from overseas, and 45% of them are specialists.

　　Visa restrictions have also denied visas to thousands of computer and mechanical professionals.

　　The proposed changes are limited to doctors and nurses, but they can free up thousands of places. Although the quota of 20,700 second-level visas remains unchanged, doctors and nurses are missing from the competition, and the number of applications for computers and teachers is correspondingly increased.

　　Jia Weide, the interior minister, said in an interview with the media last week that the current British immigration policy was not completely consistent with that of Prime Minister Theresa May. He will conduct a review.

　　It is reported that Downing Street has been lobbied for several months, and Health Minister Hou Junwei is also one of the lobbyists. He called on the government to at least "open the door" to Dr. NHS. According to Hou Junwei, doctors are a special case. One of the biggest crises facing Britain is that the number of doctors is far from reaching the basic level, and the medical care work is pushed to infinity because of the shortage of doctors. Greg Clark, Minister of Commerce, Energy and Industrial Strategy, is also lobbying for the business community, hoping that the government will take care of more foreign workers of special types and make it easier for them to obtain work permits.