{"id":86890,"date":"2026-03-26T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86890"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:37:42","slug":"doctors-waiting-on-asylum-decisions-can-work-in-nhs-as-home-office-lifts-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/doctors-waiting-on-asylum-decisions-can-work-in-nhs-as-home-office-lifts-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors waiting on asylum decisions can work in NHS as Home Office lifts ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZrjaA.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"One specialist was able to take up a post she had applied for a year earlier but had not been allowed to accept. The post had not been filled in that period. Photograph: Nick Moore\/Alamy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Doctors who have been prevented from working in the NHS while they wait for asylum decisions are celebrating after the Home Office agreed to lift the ban.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/doctors-waiting-on-asylum-decisions-can-work-in-nhs-as-home-office-lifts-ban\/ar-AA1ZrggC?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69c4e720672f4242b94cb09619514b3f&amp;cvpid=2c93cc29d61142bbe5a9ee804ef6b546&amp;ei=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Doctors who have been prevented from working in the NHS while they wait for asylum decisions are celebrating after the Home Office&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/junior-doctor.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86891,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86890\/revisions\/86891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}