UK risks becoming reliant on overseas care workers, report warns

UK risks becoming reliant on overseas care workers, report warns The UK risks becoming highly reliant on overseas care workers after nearly 58,000 visas were issued for the sector last year, a report says.

Analysis by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford found that the demand for foreign staff had left the NHS and care homes open to “vulnerabilities” including “exposure to international competition for health workers and risks of exploitation”.

In the year to March, 57,700 care workers received skilled work visas, the report says. The Guardian

See also:

• Migration and the health and care workforce  The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford