GPs being offered £11,250 a month to provide 'first class' healthcare for migrants facing deportation
Salaries of up to the equivalent of £11,250 a month are being waved at doctors to look after migrants held in immigration removal centres (IRCs).
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Published: 00:20 GMT, 27 December 2025 | Updated: 00:28 GMT, 27 December 2025
GPs are being offered £135,000 a year to provide ‘first class’ healthcare to foreign criminals and illegal migrants facing deportation.
Salaries of up to the equivalent of £11,250 a month are being waved at doctors to look after migrants held in immigration removal centres (IRCs).
Healthcare provider Practice Plus Group, a contractor acting on behalf of the Home Office, is advertising for a taxpayer-funded GP at Heathrow Airport IRC.
The job involves delivering ‘first-class healthcare to a diverse patient population’ and adds that doctors will develop knowledge in areas which are not usually experienced in standard GP practices or A&E settings.
‘Within this role you will be working closely with the multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality patient care,’ the job advert states.
‘You will deliver clinical sessions, inpatient ward rounds and blood screening. Ideal applicants would enjoy working in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same, and have some experience with patients who have a history of substance misuse needs and detox.’
Promotional material also urges potential applicants to ‘not let stereotypes hold you back’ from working with foreign criminals and illegal immigrants.
‘Our residents are vulnerable, and they deserve the same level of care as anyone else,’ a principal pharmacist at Heathrow IRC said.
GPs are being offered £135,000 a year to provide ‘first class’ healthcare to foreign criminals and illegal migrants facing deportation
‘Many don’t have access to medical records or even speak English, so every day brings new challenges. But that’s what makes the job so rewarding. It requires emotional intelligence and empathy.’
The 40-hour-a-week role is in stark contrast to an NHS GP, who earns an average of £79,000 a year.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said that it is disgraceful the ‘red carpet treatment’ is being given to potential foreign criminals.
‘No wonder illegal immigrants from all over Europe flood across the English Channel when the Government spends billions of pounds of our money to cosset them,’ he added.
‘We need to leave the ECHR and then these illegal immigrants can be deported within a week of arrival.’
Detained migrants are given the same ‘range and quality’ of NHS treatment available to the public due to Home Office rules.
A Home Office spokesman said: ‘We do not directly fund these roles. We are making sweeping reforms to tackle illegal migration, which will make Britain a less attractive destination for illegal migrants and allow us to remove and deport people more easily.