One in five European NHS doctors plans to quit UK, survey reveals

BMA report raises fears of Brexit medical brain drain as half of European Economic Area medics also consider leaving

Almost one in five of the NHS’s European doctors have made plans to quit Britain, according to research that has raised fresh fears of a Brexit-induced medical brain drain.

And almost half of the health service’s 12,000 medics from the European Economic Area (EEA) are considering moving abroad, the British Medical Association survey of 1,720 of them found.

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