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...
Migrant nurses, doctors, paramedics and healthcare professionals in the NHS will see their visas automatically renewed for another year, the government has confirmed. With many migrant NHS workers due to see their visas run out...
Charity RefuAid is appealing to the UK government to let refugee doctors living in Britain to assist in the coronavirus pandemic. The charity is asking for medics to be speedily or temporarily registered as practising doctors, claiming that out of...
As the UK begins to navigate life on lockdown, the concerns and uncertainties of the nation are rife. Yet, in the midst of it all, there is an abundance of community spirit and invaluable support networks; a light at the end of (what may feel like)...
NHS nurse Reizel Quaichon has spoken out after being abused due to the colour of her skin. Reizel posted on Facebook to bring awareness to the horrific incident and highlight just how traumatic it is to be a victim of hate crime. Xenophobic abuse of...
