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Anger as thousands of NHS staff no longer eligible for automatic visa renewals

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Ministers have refused to extend automatic visa renewals for thousands of overseas NHS medics. Foreign doctors, nurses and paramedics have been granted free year-long extensions to their visas since March to help staff the coronavirus crisis.

But as the UK enters the deadly pandemic’s second wave, the Government has vetoed extending the October 1 deadline for automatic renewals for key workers from abroad.

MPs and union bosses urged ministers to re-think the cliff edge for overseas staff, who account for 13.8% of NHS workers - 5.5% of which are from the EU.

GMB’s Rachel Harrison warned of staff shortages ahead of a “catastrophic winter” with a second Covid spike on top of the regular strain of the colder months on the NHS. “We can’t have

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