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<p>The White Paper sets out a new immigration system that will work in the interests
of the United Kingdom. The future system will focus on high skills, welcoming talented
and hardworking individuals that will support the UK’s dynamic economy, brilliant
National Health Service and indispensable social care services.</p><p> </p><p>For
skilled migrants there will be no cap on numbers. This will mean that all skilled
roles – whether clinical or non-clinical – will benefit from the certainty that already
exists for doctors and nurses, will give the NHS and social care providers the confidence
that they will be able to bring in any suitably skilled migrant and enable the Government
to process cases immediately. We will also abolish the Resident Labour Market Test
for skilled workers – this will remove a month from the process of recruiting from
overseas.</p><p> </p><p>We will also introduce a time limited route for temporary
short-term workers of all skill levels. It is likely, however, that there could be
some decrease in the flow of so called lower skilled workers from abroad. We know
we need to redouble our efforts to promote jobs in the NHS and social care to the
domestic workforce and we have has made improving the working lives of the millions
of people who work in health and social care one of our top priorities, and why we
have launched recruitment campaigns for both the NHS and social care. We are also
clear that we want the 167,000 European Union nationals who currently work in the
health and social care sectors to stay in the UK after we leave the EU, and in December
2018 they were able to apply for settled status early as part of the testing phase
of the wider scheme.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to monitor and analyse overall staffing
levels across the NHS and adult social care, including the impact of the proposed
future immigration system.</p>
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