EU nurses ‘quitting NHS in record numbers’

The number of EU nationals leaving the NHS has risen to new heights, with the supply of healthcare staff from Europe also tailing off significantly.

This is according to data from freedom of information responses compiled by the Liberal Democrats from 80 of the 136 NHS acute trusts in England, which showed that 2,700 EU nurses left the NHS in 2016 – up from 1,600 nurses in 2014.

It represents a 68 percent acceleration of this trend, and coincides with a drop of almost 92 percent in the number of EU nationals registering as nurses in England since the Brexit referendum in June 2016.

Only 96 nurses joined the NHS from other European nations in December 2016, compared to 1,304 in July. The Royal College of Nursing has accused the government of alienating European workers by failing to provide them with any assurances of their security in the UK following Brexit.

Janet Davies, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: "The government has failed to train enough British nurses and cannot afford to lose the international workforce on which the NHS so heavily relies."

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