Home secretary to relax rules from Friday, due to health service recruitment pressures

Thousands more foreign medical professionals will be able to work in the NHS after the home secretary, Sajid Javid, confirmed the government would relax tough immigration rules first imposed by Theresa May.

As revealed by the Guardian on Tuesday, doctors and nurses are to be excluded from the cap on skilled worker visas, meaning there will be no restriction on the numbers who can be employed through the so-called tier 2 visa route.

Related: Thousands of UK visa applications by doctors refused, figures show

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