NHS trusts urge Government to recognise how much NHS relies on immigration

NHS leaders are calling on the Government to reform immigration policy to make it easier to recruit doctors and nurses from overseas and fill significant gaps left by UK workforce shortages.

Staff shortages are the top concern for two thirds of chief executives and chairs of NHS trusts and foundation trusts, according to a survey by membership body, NHS Providers.

And 85 per cent expect overseas recruitment to be very or fairly important to keeping services running over the next three years.

To address this NHS Providers, which represents 98 per cent of NHS trusts, says the Government must “urgently confirm the right to remain” of 60,000 EU staff in the NHS and set out how it will fund pay rises for staff now it has scrapped its public sector pay cap. Read more…

NHS trusts urge Government to recognise how much NHS relies on immigration