Image: Poster in Guys & St Thomas's Hospital, London. Credit: Docs Not Cops.
The toxic debate about Brexit has inevitably spilled over into discussion about the future of the NHS. But have we fully assessed the risks to the NHS’s founding principles?
The main concern which has featured in the media and in Parliament is that the NHS – across the whole UK – will suffer significantly if the current arrangements with the EU are not in some way maintained in the future. Chief among these concerns is that the NHS’s heavy reliance on doctors, dentists, nurses and care workers from within the European Economic Area means that anything that limits this form of free movement will exacerbate existing workforce shortages.
