NHS, don't ever complain

Mazzer2:

The 96% plunge in EU nurses joining the UK register following the Brexit. [vote]

So are you saying Brexit was a bad thing for our NHS?

The drop in foreign nurses from all parts of the world was due to the tightening of the English language test that foreign nurses have to do to work in the NHS, friend of my sisters was involved in this and said that once the standard was raised the numbers who could pass plunged, it was announced this week that the standard is to be relaxed to enable the NHS to fill gaps, conveniently for remainers the new exam came in around the time of the Brexit vote and so was used to blame decreasing numbers of EU nurses on the Brexit vote

Clearly there are a lot of factors involved here.
We do need nurses to speak English well. We seem to be losing some recent immigrant workers with desirable skills, post Brexit vote.
Underlying any of this though, why do we need to rely on imported medical staff? Why is it we don’t have enough home grown recruits?
Maybe some of it is under funding and the constant criticism from politicians? The same politicians, that say they love the NHS, then effectively cut it’s funding.