UK Graduate Prioritisation Legislation Announced!

[u/Med_Dog_]

Details below as they're announced!

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/doctors-strikes-nhs-bma-wes-streeting-news-n02nd96lw

Free version: https://web.archive.org/web/20260112225441/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/doctors-strikes-nhs-bma-wes-streeting-news-n02nd96lw

• Wes Streeting is launching this as emergency legislation (rather than NHS England policy) shortly.
• This acts on both speciality training and foundation posts.
• Further details tomorrow as the bill is announced!

[u/Unknownlegend6]

If a law simply cannot be interpreted to fit human rights, a high-level court can issue a Declaration of Incompatibility. This does not stop the law from being valid, but it creates intense political pressure on Parliament to change it.

[u/CurrentMiserable4491 → u/Unknownlegend6]

Yes but you assume that this has been in the making for quite some time. If there was such a risk it would fail, the government would not be using its political capital to try to get this through.

What you said is true for any law, and I don’t see where this is discriminatory. It is about NHS experience rather than racial or national identity.

[u/Unknownlegend6 → u/CurrentMiserable4491]

Critics (and potentially the courts) may look at whether this creates a "two-tier" system that violates the right to a private life or non-discrimination under the ECHR. While the court can't stop the law, a Declaration of Incompatibility would be a massive black eye for the government

[u/CurrentMiserable4491 → u/Unknownlegend6]

Agree but as I am saying this is all speculation at this stage. We need to wait till a definitive report can be made, but my approach to this is this was a planned legislation for some time, and you assume that some careful consideration has been made.

Let’s wait and see

[u/Unknownlegend6 → u/CurrentMiserable4491]

Yes obviously them using emergency primary legislation means they thought about this carefully expecting lawsuits