NHS, don't ever complain

muckles:

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

That wasn’t really the point of the post, more was that Carryfast, Trucknet Brexiteer in Chief had posted an article by Polly Toynbee, in which she claimed Brexit was partially responsible for causing a crisis in the NHS. I just loved the irony. :laughing:

No the point was the fact that ‘our own’ nurses ( and doctors ) are voting with their feet in deciding that the NHS is under resourced and over rationed and running off to the US/Oz/Nz instead.While there’s no argument that the NHS is attractive to health care workers from 3rd world countries where resources are even less than here all in the interests of making their economies more ‘competitive’.The irony being the Polly’s of this world moaning about that situation let alone asking her the question,how does any of that make the case for the EU and the NHS and against the US/NZ/Australian health care systems ?.