Brexit - Amount of EU nurses applying for NHS jobs drops by 96%

[vetran]

Lets not also forget that we just screwed the crap out of the NHS agency market by hitting it with the largest IR35 stick that HMRC could find...

I'm not bloody surprised that the normal pool of NHS workers are choosing to do something else given that kick in the teeth.

Brexit has little to do with it.

very good point.

[m0n1k3r]

From high quality European nursing schools, maybe people aren't sick so much in other EU countries, Brits are the fattest of all of Europe

That's where many British to-be nurses also go to get their training as there is a severe shortage of places in the UK. Once abroad, they tend to stay and work abroad once finished with their education. It is not only the UK that needs nurses, and they are paid 75% in places like Norway.

[SueEllen]

From high quality European nursing schools, maybe people aren't sick so much in other EU countries, [b]Brits are the fattest of all of Europe[/b[

We aren't yet - we are number 3 - but we are getting there.

[northernladyuk]

We aren't yet - we are number 3 - but we are getting there.

Brexit will have an upward effect on average UK BMI, as thinner people will be more likely to emigrate and less likely to immigrate.

Interesting starting point here. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2016/0...igher-obesity/

[The_Equalizer]

Brexit will have an upward effect on average UK BMI, as thinner people will be more likely to emigrate and less likely to immigrate.

Perhaps it's all those refugees bringing down the European average?