Deborah Klayman

Earier this month, NHS England chief Simon Stephens urged the govenment to change their mind on measures that would see an estimated 30,000 nurses deported. The preposterous decision not to include nurses on the list of “shortage occupations” would mean non-EEA workers who earn less than £35,000 after six years in the UK will be deported. As someone who works in frontline NHS services in London, I immediately recognised that – in one fell swoop – this would bring the NHS to i