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The largest survey of home care providers ever conducted has found the sector is facing its worst staffing crisis in history, with thousands of vulnerable people going without care as a result.
STAFF shortages in the health and care sector are pushing the NHS to breaking point – and they are in part the result of a “reckless” and “cynical” decision by the UK Government to push through a hard Brexit in the midst of a pandemic.
'Not a single boot on ground until November': Businesses say government visa scheme is unworkable
29/09/2021
Lord Wolfson is a highly successful businessman, a prominent supporter of Brexit and a Conservative peer. He is, in short, the sort of man who should be in perfect alignment with a government led by Boris Johnson. He isn’t.
IN September 2019, the UK Government made public its list of “reasonable worst case assumptions” in the wake of a no-deal Brexit.
Not for the first time, the prime minister delivered a major speech that was economical with the truth.
6 Headlines Proving Brexit Is Not All It Promised To Be: 'Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Had?'
12/10/2021
Comparing the stories encouraging people to vote to leave the EU to those we've seen in recent weeks paints rather a bleak picture.
Ministers refuse to ease immigration restrictions as campaigners warn of ‘social care time bomb’
A care firm director has blamed Brexit for difficulties he has experienced in recruiting staff.
Nuffield Trust: Slow decisions and vague trade slogans leave NHS uncertain of post-Brexit future
20/12/2021
Our report published today looks at six key areas of health and social care that are being impacted by Brexit.
An island nation must trade with its nearest mainland, whatever our new Brexit opportunities minister claims.
Notrees Care Home in Kintbury could be closed, and all its residents moved elsewhere.
“It is now more difficult to recruit staff from the European Union due to post-Brexit government requirements, although social care carers are now on the government’s shortage occupancy list."
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said Brexit may have had some impact on staffing following a new report exposing major shortages in the NHS.
“Before Brexit and everything we were getting staff no problem.”
Spiralling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10 reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain
03/02/2022
As small businesses crumble, shelves get emptier and the care-worker shortage intensifies, life outside the EU is having a dire effect on many of us. Why aren’t politicians talking about it?
Maybe it’s time for the next Prime Minister to admit that immigration is not just essential, it’s desirable.
Ministers are rapidly planning an overseas hiring spree to plug critical holes in the NHS and social care sector. / It took less than 24 hours for The Telegraph to pen a column about how the new plan constitutes a “Brexit betrayal”.
In this film, senior FT writers and British businesspeople examine how Brexit hit the UK economy, the political conspiracy of silence, and why there has not yet been a convincing case for a 'Brexit dividend'.
NICOLA Sturgeon was completely unimpressed as a Tory MSP suggested Brexit has nothing to do with the Scottish Parliament during FMQs.
A Scottish border village is set to lose its GP surgery branch, citing staffing reasons for the planned closure. / “So, we are, for example, struggling to recruit in social care and nursing to a significant extent because of the fall in the size of the working age population because of Brexit and the loss of free movement of people."
Slough care provider put into special measures says that Brexit, Covid, and staff shortages added to already present issues
12/12/2022
Global Care Ltd Slough said that compounding issues including Brexit, Covid, and staff shortages had made it hard to keep up with operational management, leading to its 'inadequate' rating.
Brexit shut off the “relief valve” of immigration from the European Union, worsening workforce shortages in health and social care in the UK, a report from the Nuffield Trust think tank has concluded. / Brexit’s effect has been felt particularly in specialties such as cardiothoracic surgery and anaesthesia, and in dentistry and the care sector.
The UK's split with the EU has worsened recruitment shortages while pushing up the price of some medicines.
Brexit has increased drug prices and worsened staff shortages in the U.K., increasing the impact of other serious issues facing the country’s health care system, a report has found.
THE SEISMIC CHANGES to the relationship with our nearest neighbours and the impact of Brexit have only added fuel to the fire of severe challenges facing health and social care in the UK today, making people less healthy and widening health inequalities.