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Rationing drugs and jobs the NHS in the High Court

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 2 2008

The House of Lords has held that 2005 guidance, issued by the Department of Health, which would have had the effect of restricting the ability of international medical graduates to gain employment in the NHS, is unlawful

Changes to the recording and reporting regime relating to the treatment of visitors from Europe

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 6 2009

On 12 October 2009, new arrangements for recording and reporting the treatment of visitors from the EEA and Switzerland (EEAS) came into force

Illegality of employment contracts

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 9 2010

The recent judgment in the case of San Ling Chinese Medicine Centre v Lian Wei Ji says that an employee's work permit must have actually been revoked in order for their contract of employment to be tainted with illegality

Council had no duty to provide accommodation to failed asylum seeker

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 10 2010

In the case of L v Westminster City Council, L, who was an Iranian national and failed asylum seeker, applied for judicial review of the decision of Westminster City Council (WCC) that it did not need to provide him with accommodation under section 21 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (the Act

Foreign workers: out for the count

  • Penningtons Solicitors LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 9 2010

It is already well-documented in the press that the government has recently announced its intentions to introduce a cap to limit the number of non-EU economic migrants entering the UK

Review of access to the NHS by foreign nationals

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 14 2010

The Department of Health invites views on planned changes to the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989 (SI 1989306

EU nurses to be allowed to work in Britain without safety checks

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 16 2010

The Nursing and Midwifery Council is to stop administering safety checks after being told it could be sued by the European Commission for breach of EU law on freedom of movement for workers

Asylum seeker argues that to return to Zimbabwe, where she will be denied medical treatment, breaches her human rights

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 16 2011

In the case of FM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2011) an asylum seeker, M, claimed asylum on the basis that she, as an AIDS sufferer, could not obtain medical treatment for her condition if returned to Zimbabwe as the anti-retroviral treatment required was only available to individuals who supported the leading Zanu (PF) party

Reasonable to dismiss employee with uncertain immigration status

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 6 2011

In Kurumuth v NHS Trust North Middlesex University Hospital, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that it was reasonable for the NHS trust to dismiss an employee when the UK Border Agency (UKBA) failed to satisfy itself that she had the right to work in the UK

New rules to tackle ‘health tourists’

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 8 2011

On 10 October 2011, the Government announced changes to the immigration rules which it said would make health tourists “pay the price for their NHS debts”