{"id":15510,"date":"2013-06-10T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=19662a0a8b550c1f348f921b9c11bda5"},"modified":"2013-06-10T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:36:00","slug":"news-story-new-phase-of-tuberculosis-screening-launched-as-part-of-immigration-rules-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=15510","title":{"rendered":"News story: New phase of tuberculosis screening launched as part of Immigration Rules changes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The second phase of the Home Office\u2019s life-saving pre-entry tuberculosis (TB) screening programme has been introduced as part of the new immigration rules laid today (Monday 10 June). <\/p>\n

Pre-entry screening<\/h2>\n

The programme means that migrants who want to enter the UK for more than six months, from 67 countries with a high incidence of TB, have to be screened before they are granted a visa for the UK.<\/p>\n

The first phase of pre-entry screening was rolled out to eight countries, including India, Malaysia and the Philippines, in May 2012, and will now be introduced to a further 11 countries from Monday 1 July. <\/p>\n

Immigration Minister Mark Harper said:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s essential that we take action to tackle the rise of tuberculosis cases in the UK. Pre-entry screening, followed by treatment where necessary, will help to prevent the risk of TB in the UK and will also save lives.<\/p>\n

The further expansion of our pre-entry screening process will help prevent the importation and spread of TB in the UK and save money for the tax payer in the process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Increase<\/h3>\n

The introduction of pre-screening comes as recent figures showed that there were over 9,000 new cases of TB in the UK in 2011, a five per cent increase on 2010. The programme is targeted at migrants after research showed non-UK born people accounted for three quarters of all new TB cases diagnosed \u2013 20 times higher than in the UK born population. <\/p>\n

Pre-entry screening will be rolled out to the following 11 countries from Monday 1 July: China (settlement cases only), Ethiopia, Gambia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malawi, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.<\/p>\n

The immigration rules changes were introduced in an explanatory memorandum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Home Office continues tuberculosis pre-entry screening programme roll out in second set of high incidence countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}