UK Stops Doctors, Nurses, Others From Bringing Family Members Abroad

In a latest development, the United Kingdom has banned Health and Care Workers from bringing their dependents into the country.

This was made known by the UK Home Office via its verified X handle (formerly Twitter) on Monday.

“From today, care workers entering the UK on Health and Care Worker visas can no longer bring dependents.

“This is part of our plan to deliver the biggest ever cut in migration,” it wrote.

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It would be recalled that the UK has been cutting down on the number of health workers trooping into the country.

Earlier, the United Kingdom stopped the recruitment of skilled health and social care workers from Nigeria and 53 other countries across the world.

In its updated “Code of Practice For The International Recruitment of Health and Social Care Personnel In England,” the British government placed 37 other African countries on its red list which was based on the World Health Organisation Workforce Support and Safeguard List, 2023.

It, however, said the list does not prevent individual health and social care personnel from independently applying for work in the country.