Augustine is one of 9,500 nigerian doctors licensed to work in the uk. Recruitment from abroad has never been higher, with almost 40 of uk doctors trained overseas. But his recruitment by a British Company called Nes Health Care meant working long hours in a private hospital with potential consequences, he says, for patients health. I would wake up at 6. 30 behind the ward at seven and it was an 80 bedded hospital. So i was looking after all of the patients on the ward. 0utpatients and x ray, and i would be working from seven up until 11 at night. And i would think that im meant to go to bed, you know, just get some rest. But then when you go to bed, you get called. All patients complain about this and you sleep is ruined. So im not able to sleep again up until seven again and the cycle continues for one week. But how do some of these doctors get here . The bbc has been investigating the story for months. Weve discovered a scandal about large scale recruitment and exploitation of forei
augustine is one of 9,500 nigerian doctors licensed to work in the uk. recruitment from abroad has never been higher, with almost 40% of uk doctors trained overseas. but his recruitment by a british company called nes health care meant working long hours in a private hospital with potential consequences, he says, for patients health. i would wake up at 6.30 behind the ward at seven and it was an 80 bedded hospital. so i was looking after all of the patients on the ward. 0utpatients and x ray, and i would be working from seven up until 11 at night. and i would think that i m meant to go to bed, you know, just get some rest. but then when you go to bed, you get called. all patients complain about this and you sleep is ruined. so i m not able to sleep again up until seven again and the cycle continues for one week. but how do some of these doctors get here? the bbc has been investigating the story for months. we ve discovered a scandal about large scale recruitment and exploita
Of parliament in westminster. Plans to make britain an independent, sovereign nation will be published this morning just one day after theresa may started the process of brexit. The great repeal bill will outline how the government plans to repatriate more than a0 years worth of powers from the European Union and convert thousands of eu rules into british law. Yesterday, theresa may described britains departure from the eu as an historic moment from which there can be no turning back. Eleanor garnier reports. Cometh the hour, cometh the moment, in westminster, belfast, edinburgh and cardiff the exact moment the uk took a new and different course. This is an historic moment from which there is no turning back. The letter, hand delivered by our man in brussels, telling the eu we are on our way out. Written in a deliberately conciliatory tone. But a hint, too, of the steel in mrs mays stance. No overt threat to walk away, but a serious warning, as she wrote a failure to reach an agreement
The main news from westminster fears of a Government Power Grab as ministers set about Disentangling The Uk from European Union law. It has been suggested that the government is looking at henry viii clauses to take this through. So much for parliamentary sovereignty. Scotlands aspirations for a voice also seem to be given the henry viii treatment with a rough wooing clearly taking place right now. Will Security Cooperation be used as a Bargaining Chip in brexit talks . A former police chief thinks an implied threat has been issued. That the uk will withhold Security Cooperation with the eu if it does not get the trade deal that it wants was insensitive, reckless, or an empty threat, or all three . And calls to increase the jail sentences imposed, in england, on people who are cruel to animals. These individuals are Practising Cruelty, basically, on animals which they will then transfer on to humans. Now that article 50 has been activated, work begins on what to do with the vast body o