Referendum decision is a bitter pill for the NHS and social care The most insidious effect of the vote will be to discourage EU talent from working in the health service
The vote to leave the EU is likely to inflict significant damage on the health service.
In the next few months, the biggest threat to the NHS comes from a recession-driven round of additional spending cuts hitting non-ringfenced budgets such as social care. It would be political suicide for a government led by a pro-Brexit prime minister to cut NHS spending itself, since more funding for the NHS was at the centre of the Vote Leave campaign. That exploitation of the health service gives NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens a little leverage with the government – but not much.
The UK is part of a worldwide marketplace for talent. We have just made it more difficult to attract the best. Continue reading... The Guardian
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The vote to leave the EU is likely to inflict significant damage on the health service.
In the next few months, the biggest threat to the NHS comes from a recession-driven round of additional spending cuts hitting non-ringfenced budgets such as social care. It would be political suicide for a government led by a pro-Brexit prime minister to cut NHS spending itself, since more funding for the NHS was at the centre of the Vote Leave campaign. That exploitation of the health service gives NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens a little leverage with the government – but not much.
The UK is part of a worldwide marketplace for talent. We have just made it more difficult to attract the best. Continue reading... The Guardian
See also:
- What now for the NHS? NHS Employers
- Brexit 'will make NHS staff shortages worse' BBC News
- NHS moves to reassure worried EU nurses OnMedica
- Brexit camp 'played up' £350m NHS windfall pledge, says RCGP GP Online
- I’m not UK born and bred – will my patients now care? The Guardian
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