PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS: Migrant Workers (1 November 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that non-UK NHS staff do not leave the NHS when the UK leaves the EU.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

Answer

The Department values highly the enormous contribution made by all staff working across the health and care sectors, including those from other European countries and elsewhere in the world.

We continue to monitor closely the overall staffing levels across the National Health Service and social care. We are also working across Government to ensure there will continue to be a sufficient number of staff to deliver the high quality services on which patients rely following the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.

My Rt. hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been very clear that EU citizens living lawfully in the UK at the point when the UK leaves the EU will be allowed to stay.


Answered by:
Philip Dunne (Conservative)
8 November 2017

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