Boris Johnson gives in to pressure over surcharge for migrant health workers BBC News

NHS staff and care workers who come from outside the EU will not have to pay a surcharge for the right to use the health service. Barely 24 hours after the Prime Minister told MPs that the fee had to stay, the policy was abruptly reversed. A group of Conservative MPs had joined opposition parties in calling for the 400pound a year surcharge to be dropped. Boris Johnson, who s acknowledged that he owes his life to NHS staff from overseas, had said yesterday it would be very difficult to find alternativ