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We need to forge alliances to continue our global health leadership, writes the director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations.
Kevin Foster made the remarks a week before the deadline for the EU settlement scheme.
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What has Brexit meant for the NHS?
10/02/2023
Mark Dayan assesses the impact of Brexit on the health service, looking at the effect on funding, the workforce and medicine supplies.
We’re running out of time. If post-Brexit negotiations don’t prioritise health, we won’t get through a second wave
30/06/2020
Everyone is fishing in the same pond. Stocks built up in readiness for Brexit are having to be replenished. If another pandemic strikes, we’ll hardly be in the best position to get through it.
The plans have also been delayed by three months, while costs have risen by almost £1m as a result of problems created by the pandemic and Britain's exit from the European Union.
Notrees Care Home in Kintbury could be closed, and all its residents moved elsewhere.
A leaked letter has revealed concerns about the "significant impact" of Brexit on vulnerable children requiring cross-border care by Northern Ireland social workers.
Britain did not take part in €1.5bn order for kit to protect against Covid-19 despite shortages in NHS.
Most forms of Brexit will worsen the country’s finances and reduce space for new initiatives to address child poverty, social care and left-behind communities that some argue drove the Brexit vote, a report has found.
UK faces critical skills shortage as care homes leader equates immigration policy to ‘human rights abuse’
22/10/2020
The UK is facing a skills crisis as it heads towards the end of the Brexit transition period with care homes, nursing and construction sectors expecting shortages.
An island nation must trade with its nearest mainland, whatever our new Brexit opportunities minister claims.
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?
Maybe it’s time for the next Prime Minister to admit that immigration is not just essential, it’s desirable.
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'.
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”.
Nicola Sturgeon is to speak out against the end of freedom of movement - warning it will damage the workforce, our universities and health and social care.
Vaccines and blood products could be stockpiled ahead of a possible ‘no-deal’ Brexit, the health and social care secretary has confirmed.
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?
A care firm director has blamed Brexit for difficulties he has experienced in recruiting staff.
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.
Points-based system will have 'potentially disastrous consequences' in high-vacancy sector and government suggestion that gaps be filled by UK workers earning higher wages rubbished.
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."
The UK's split with the EU has worsened recruitment shortages while pushing up the price of some medicines.