NHS at centre of storm: Brexit Means … podcast

This week we’re talking health. Leaving the EU was meant to be about giving the NHS £350m extra a week. Instead it has become a major threat to the health service’s existence, thanks to a staffing crisis. Dan Roberts, our health team and the head of the Royal College of Nurses discuss what happens next

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In this episode of Brexit Means, we look at a sector of the economy that ought not to be too affected by leaving the EU but that has found itself in the eye of the storm. If anything, healthcare was meant to be a major beneficiary of leaving, at least if you believed the £350m-a-week claim on the side of a bus. But our hospitals and care homes are kept afloat by an army of EU workers, many of whom feel increasingly gloomy about their long-term future in the UK.

Continue reading... November 09, 2017 at 12:30PM