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Britain will continue trying to recruit the health workers it needs from abroad, but getting back those its lost to the EU is unlikely - as ITV News Europe Editor James Mates reports.
What happens if we have no deal?
15/10/2020
Mr Johnson told his cabinet this week that leaving the EU without a deal should hold “no fear” for Britain, but was he right?
EU moves to guarantee supply of medicines to Northern Ireland have so far worked but there are looming issues, peers have heard.
THE UK GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE to Brexit and its failure to iron out key agreements after nearly a year outside the Single Market and Customs Union, are fuelling constant uncertainty over many aspects of health and social care in the UK, says a new report from the Nuffield Trust.
British pharmacists are struggling to get their hands on certain medicines for cancer, epilepsy, diabetes and menopause as drug supply issues intensify in the country.
The U.K. has missed out on recruiting thousands of European doctors since voting to leave the economic union in 2016, research from a health thinktank suggests.
The NHS and Brexit: What We Now Know
05/01/2023
Sam Bright examines the contribution of Brexit to our current healthcare crisis.
For almost 50 years, the NHS benefited from easy access to a large market, meaning it’s been first in the queue for the latest innovations. But what impact might Brexit have on medicines, medical devices and life sciences in the UK? Mark Dayan explains, in a blog that was first published in the BMJ on 26 February.
The impact of Brexit has only added fuel to the fire of severe challenges facing health and social care in the UK, warns the Nuffield Trust.
Five years on from the Brexit vote, Mark Dayan looks back at the main claims that were made about the NHS before the referendum took place. Which have been proven right and which have proven to be unfounded?
The Brexit predictions that came true, those that didn’t—and what we didn’t see coming - BMJ
03/08/2022
Six years after the referendum we can disentangle the evidence and judge the effects on health and care, says Richard Vize.
More than 4,000 European doctors have opted not to work in the NHS following the Brexit vote in 2016, research has revealed.
‘The medicines supply chain is broken at every level,’ warns Dr Leyla Hannbeck.
Hundreds of researchers and organisations across Europe have called for the rapid association of the UK and Switzerland to Horizon Europe.
The UK's split with the EU has worsened recruitment shortages while pushing up the price of some medicines.
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.
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.
This being 2020, it didn't take long for good news about the Pfizer/BioNTech jab to turn into a tiresome row about Brexit.
There are still unresolved issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol despite changes made by the EU, says a major pharmaceutical firm.
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.
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.
Price of X-ray machines, medicines and bedding all expected to rise, says Nuffield Trust.
Medical supplies needed to fight second wave to be hit by no-deal Brexit, think tank warns
14/10/2020
Medical supplies crucial to fight a second wave of coronavirus face being disrupted by a no-deal Brexit, a leading health think tank has warned.
It comes as figures from the NHS show there are 10,582 FTE medical vacancies across England alone. / More than 4,000 European doctors have opted not to work in the NHS following the Brexit vote in 2016, research has revealed.