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NHS would collapse under Tories’ ‘cruel’ plan for crackdown on foreign workers, bosses warn

Source: PA Wire

The government’s “divisive” and “unnecessarily cruel” plan to cap the number of foreign NHS workers would cause the healthcare system to collapse, healthcare leaders have warned.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick is set to present a new plan to curb soaring migration to prime minister Rishi Sunak that would see the number of people coming from abroad to work for the NHS and social care services cut and the minimum salary threshold increased to £35,000.

understands his plan would propose a on social care bringing in their families and

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