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In the wake of last week’s European elections, the Today programme this morning discussed the future of free movement of people within the EU. The discussion turned to the importance of EU migrants to the NHS, and how this compares to that of migrants from other countries.
It’s impossible to measure the ‘importance’ of foreign nationals to the NHS per se, but we can look at the numbers it employs.
Figures from September show the proportion of NHS workers – excluding GPs – in England recorded as British was 78.5%. The proportions of staff from other EU and Commonwealth member countries were relatively similar to one another; 3.6% were nationals of EU countries and 4% were nationals of Commonwealth countries.
https://fullfact.org/health/migration_nhs_staff_european_union_commonwealth-32721
It’s impossible to measure the ‘importance’ of foreign nationals to the NHS per se, but we can look at the numbers it employs.
Figures from September show the proportion of NHS workers – excluding GPs – in England recorded as British was 78.5%. The proportions of staff from other EU and Commonwealth member countries were relatively similar to one another; 3.6% were nationals of EU countries and 4% were nationals of Commonwealth countries.
https://fullfact.org/health/migration_nhs_staff_european_union_commonwealth-32721