Forcing NHS staff to pay health surcharge up front 'wrong and unnecessary', warns BMA

NHS staff recruited from overseas will continue to pay an 'absurd' health levy despite government promises that they would be exempt, in a move doctors' leaders say is 'wrong and wholly unnecessary'.

by Nick Bostock

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