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it's not just over countries policies, countries like Nepal and Ghana are on the WHO Red list for a reason, they face significant health care workforce shortages which is why you aren't supposed to actively recruit from (but we do and exploitive agencies as shown in the article linked do, upto 20% of our overseas recruitment for nurses and midwives comes from red list countries) them as you are exacerbating a problem that will lead to worse outcomes in those countries for the population. you might be able to argue it's OK if we were balancing the issue with our foreign aid but instead we are spending that in the UK on hotels to pay for a failed immigration policy.
There are always going to be winners and losers in any policy but I think net suffering is larger in the current system
greentricky-
Are the qualifications also funded for by the government?
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actively recruit from (but we do and exploitive agencies as shown in the article linked do, upto 20% of our overseas recruitment for nurses and midwives comes from red list countries)
"Actively" is a helpful distinction and I hadn't picked up on it. I still don't think we should be denying visas on the basis of country of origin, though.
GoatandTricycle
NickCJ
What about the rights of those individuals that trained abroad? Whilst I accept that the argument can be made from a non-nativist perspective, there will still be those that would otherwise like to come to the UK that lose out.
Why should we be complicit in another country’s protectionist migration policies?