Why hiking the immigration health surcharge is bad for the NHS - New Statesman his week, the government announced plans to double the immigration health surcharge from £200 to £400 a year.
The increase is not as steep as the tripling of the health surcharge promised in the Conservative Party 2017 election manifesto.Still, the government estimates that the increase may raise an extra £220m a year for the NHS. So it’s ironic that while it may add a couple of hundred million to NHS funds, it also makes it harder for trusts to recruit much needed health workers from overseas. New Statesman
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