Brexit blamed as record number of EU nurses give up on Britain

[Northerner]

Record numbers of nurses and midwives from EU27 countries quit Britain last year, fuelling fears that a Brexit brain drain will deepen the NHS’s already chronic staffing crisis.

A total of 3,962 such staff from the European Economic Area (EEA) left the Nursing and Midwifery Council register between 2017 and 2018. The register tracks who is eligible to work in those areas of healthcare in the UK.

The number of departures was 28% more than the 3,081 who left in 2016-17 and three times higher than the 1,311 who did so in 2013-14, the first year the NMC began keeping data on such departures.

At the same time, the number of EU nurses and midwives coming to work in the UK has fallen to its lowest level. Just 805 of them joined the NMC register in 2017-18. That total is just 13% of the 6,382 who came over the year before.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...lamed-record-number-eu-nurses-give-up-britain

 

[kentish maid]

That doesn't altogether surprise me. There is too much uncertainty about what will happen post Brexit.

 

[Northerner]

That doesn't altogether surprise me. There is too much uncertainty about what will happen post Brexit.

And I'm sure the 'hostile environment' isn't helping I know a lady from a European country who has lived here for decades, works in the care industry and has a family, who has not felt reassured by anything the government has said about her security of residence here

 

[kentish maid]

And I'm sure the 'hostile environment' isn't helping I know a lady from a European country who has lived here for decades, works in the care industry and has a family, who has not felt reassured by anything the government has said about her security of residence here

Not a good situation for her to find herself in

 

[Drummer]

We are being revealed as a most ungrateful nation - I knew that men who had come here to fight for us in our armed forces were 'sent home' - some to face real difficulties because home was no longer there, or they had been wounded and left disabled - but those now being called the Windrush generation have experienced our real 'gratitude' - having come here, invited to do poorly paid low status jobs in schools and hospitals and factories - but records of their presence were conveniently destroyed or are just not available, or they simply don't have the money to get through the long and complicated, and greatly overpriced process of establishing their right to be here.
I am sure that no one will be rushing to fill the vacancies in the care homes and the hospitals, that farmers and growers will find that they don't have the people to pick the fruit and gather the crops and that people like my son in law who is American and faces an interrogation each time he travels might well decide that as the internet means he can work where ever he likes, he might take his business to somewhere more welcoming rather than struggle to stay in the UK.

 

[Vince_UK]

The Greatest mistake in the history of the UK.