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NRI UK doctors
got victory to get training in the National Health Service (NHS)
London, March 09, 2007
Dr. Sunil Chopra
On March 09, The DOH lawyer told the court that the
it had not addressed the matter on the basis of the Race Relations
Act. He said regardless of when the leave to remain in the UK expires,
all international medical graduates would be considered on par with
their British and EU counterparts for the first round of recruitment
for training in the National Health Service (NHS)
"For the first time a clear message has been
sent out that promises made to International Medicals Graduates
(IMGs) must be kept. HSMP doctors were allowed in to make UK their
home; HSMP doctors must be treated at par with UK and EU nationals
and there is no basis for discriminating against them," Mehta
said.
BAPIO lawyer Rabindra Singh QC told the judge that
an agreement had been reached between the BAPIO and DOH. The lawyers
of DOH had to change its position yesterday when Singh introduce
the inclusion of Sections 19 (b) and 71 of the race relations act.
On midnight of Friday the 23rd February the Department
published on the MTAS website that only those doctors who have a
visa to work beyond 1st August 2007 will be considered for recruitment
in MMC.
Dr. Ramesh Mehta, President of the British Association
of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) said, "On March 04,
we secured an emergency injunction for staying the directive of
the department of health that all those non-EU doctors whose visas
expire on August 1, 2007, would not be considered for recruitment
as trainees in the present 22,000 vacancies in the NHS.
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Feb. 09, 2007,
With
UK's new MMC recruitment system- Over 10,000 Indian doctors will
have to leave the country - Since April ’06,
nearly 5,000 doctors have so far returned home after failing to
find suitable job in Britain’s National Health Service.
It depends on the ongoing ......(11)
- Feb. 09, 2007:
London
High Court upheld a new rule, Foreign doctors in jeopardy-
Last Friday, the London High Court
upheld a new rule, declining to quash the Immigration Regulations
that came into force on April 3, 2006, leaving nearly 16,000 Indian
doctors and Arab doctors 6,000. in jeopardy. More than 10,000
trainee doctors will have to leave the country .............
June 09, 2006:
On Friday, GMC spokeswoman confirmed to TOI that the exam had
been cancelled in all locations outside the UK. The GMC claimed
the decision was taken because of "low demand". it said,
it expected normal service to resume from January 2007. Even so,
representatives of the Indian medical community here told this
paper that the GMC's exam cancellation appeared to signal which
way the wind was blowing.

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