RCP and 16 other signatories send open letter to PM calling for health to be at heart of Brexit negotiations
21/08/2019
In the run up to Brexit, we’ve written to the Prime Minister, along with 16 other health organisations, calling for healthcare to be at the heart of EU exit negotiations.
Verdict conducted a poll to analyse the impact of the post-Brexit points-based immigration system on the UK’s healthcare system.
Post-Brexit issues for the NHS
19/01/2022
There are a number of measures that the UK Government must take in order to address the challenges of leaving the EU's single market.
Hospital admissions for salmonella and E coli have reached their highest level in decades.
Pensioner battling aggressive cancer tells of his fears about living in France after Brexit
06/05/2019
A British pensioner battling an aggressive form of cancer has told of his fears for the future over health coverage for Britons in France.
Opposition leaders are using Donald Trump's visit to the UK to raise concerns about the terms of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.
An inability to stockpile drugs for many serious illnesses mean shortages will hit patients hard, according to doctors. / Senior doctors have warned the NHS to brace itself for the “biggest threat it has ever faced” if the UK crashes out of the EU on October 31, as a leaked internal document reveals the risks to patients from expected drug shortages.
Number of European nurses arriving in UK falls from 9,000 a year to 900 after Brexit vote
20/05/2019
The number of European nurses arriving in Britain has fallen from about 9,000 to 900 a year since the Brexit referendum, it was revealed today.
The Nuffield Trust think tank has published a new report on the impact of Brexit on the UK’s health and care services. The ongoing monitoring work, funded by the Health Foundation, covers the impact on the NHS and social care workforce, medicine and medical devices supply and the economic cost, and reveals negative effects across these areas.
Nottinghamshire politician storms out of meeting after saying 'Brexit has destroyed the NHS'
26/07/2022
"There have always been health service challenges. But I can tell you that within about 100 metres from where I live on my estate there were seven health service staff, qualified nurses and doctors, that upped sticks and went back to the European Union, never to return."
The “uncertainty and chaos” of a no-deal Brexit could push an already under pressure NHS over the edge with patients, a leading union has warned.
No-deal Brexit will be 'catastrophe' for NHS and increase risk from deadly pandemics, BMA warns
16/08/2018
Doctors have a duty to set out the harm of crashing out of the EU and this is not scaremongering, union says.
No-deal Brexit latest: NHS staff shortages, fuel reserves and agency staff manning the border
22/08/2019
As Boris Johnson careers towards a no-deal Brexit, what are the latest reports on the impact it would have?
NHS will be sold off to US private healthcare firms if Britain crashes out, says Labour leader.
Leaving the EU without a deal could have a devastating effect on the NHS, a union warned.
'Given the dangers, every possible step must be taken to avoid it.'
Leaked report warns local disaster planning already exhausted by coronavirus crisis
Governments must acknowledge the fundamental reality that migrant workers don’t take jobs and benefits, but fill in essential labour needs
The Ukip leader was forced to back down and declare his party’s support for a state-funded health service last November after a film emerged of him backing a switch to an insurance system. After Labour claimed that Ukip would privatise the NHS, he admitted he had not carried his Ukip colleagues with him.
NHS winter chaos warning from Lib Dems as more than 11,000 EU workers leave UK since referendum
24/11/2019
Figures compiled by the Liberal Democrats found that over 3,250 NHS staff from the EU have left the health service so far this year.
Specialisms such as dentistry have shortages and EU exit still causes issues with medicines in Northern Ireland, thinktank finds.
Hospital chiefs have been asked to prepare health service for potential disruption from end of 2020.
EU citizens living in the UK will be forced to prove their right to free healthcare under the NHS after a no-deal Brexit, according to a report, in a move which campaigners have called "discriminatory and outrageous."
Patients put at risk as crisis hits supplies of vital antibiotics, HRT and anti-depressants. / Vital antibiotics, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs are among those in desperately short supply this winter – with the NHS forced to pay over the odds to get drugs into Britain.
Pharmaceutical industry leaders want a temporary ban on drugs exports to prevent the NHS being hit by shortages in the event of a no-deal Brexit.