Extract from Lords debate on Brexit: Risks to NHS Sustainability - July 12
Thursday, 13 July 2017 08:13
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab):...We then come to the workforce. We
have reached the ludicrous position where the pay policy and the
way that professional staff are treated in the health service mean
that we have fewer people from this country coming into nursing in
the NHS than are actually leaving. We have completely choked off
people coming from the EU because of the atmosphere the Government
have created with their wretched approach to Europe. My chief exec
contacts in the health service...Request free trial
(Lab):...We
then come to the workforce. We have reached the ludicrous position
where the pay policy and the way that professional staff are
treated in the health service mean that we have fewer people from
this country coming into nursing in the NHS than are actually
leaving. We have completely choked off people coming from the EU
because of the atmosphere the Government have created with their
wretched approach to Europe. My chief exec contacts in the health
service tell me that we have dozens of teams in the developing
world—India and the Philippines—recruiting
nurses to substitute for the nurses we would have had, happily,
from the EU. How can that possibly be a sensible approach to the
way the NHS is run? It just beats me; it is bizarre. The end of the
line is that the Prime Minister will not get anywhere near her
immigration target because she will desperately have to approve the
recruitment of thousands of nurses from the developing world. Is
there any more nonsensical position than that taken by this Prime
Minister?
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