The sound of another weekly clap echoes down hospital corridors where migrant NHS workers battle subsequent pandemic waves, struggling with the lack of security of their status under the hostile environment and its extension to those from the EU as...
Self-isolation exemptions are a supposed feature of the UK Government’s Winter Plan to control the spread of Coronavirus across the UK. This comes after Conservative MP, Jeremy Hunt urged the Prime Minister to implement ‘freedom passes‘...
Student nurses and midwives at the University of Manchester are facing a wave of undue stress after being informed their annual £2000 bursaries would be revoked. In a letter sent only to a small number of student reps, the student nurses who have...
With shortages in the healthcare sector amid the second wave of coronavirus, UK’s new immigration system will add further stress to the NHS. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the NHS has faced one of its toughest years to date – having dealt with...
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has announced that automatic visa extensions will be granted to more migrant health and care workers who have been serving on the frontline in the battle against coronavirus. The automatic one-year visa extension will...
A beautiful poem entitled ‘You Clap For Me Now’ by Darren Smith, a content director for Bridge Studio, that highlights the experience of migrant and BAME healthcare staff in the UK has gone viral across social media. Many immigrants...
At 8pm on every Thursday since the 26th March, members of the public up and down the country have walked out of their houses, stood on their balconies, and squeezed themselves out of windows in solidarity in order to show their thanks and...
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after being diagnosed with coronavirus, spent time in hospital before being released on Sunday 13 April. Addressing the nation for the first time since recovering from coronavirus, Johnson said in his...
Key workers currently battling the Coronavirus crisis in the UK have long been labelled ‘low skilled’ by the Government, and many on the frontlines come from overseas. Data suggests that millions of key workers are migrants. They are...
UK Prime Minister Taken to Hospital With Coronavirus Last night, news broke that the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been taken to intensive care. This came shortly after recent revelations that he, too, had contracted symptoms of COVID-19 and...