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  1. 17-01-2018, 05:58 PM #35
    Muddy Retriever
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    One of the claims made by some remainers is that the NHS is particularly dependent on EU workers. In fact the reverse is true. EEA nationals (the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) make up 5% of the NHS' workforce. If you take the labour market as a whole EEA nationals make up 7.3%. So the NHS is actually less dependent on EU nationals than the wider economy.

    It is more accurate to say that the NHS is reliant on people from the rest of the world in proportion to their number in the total workforce.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40753751

    And as I said in a previous post, the number of EU nationals working in the NHS has increased, not decreased since the Brexit vote. So claims of a Brexodus are nonsense.
    Last edited by Muddy Retriever; 17-01-2018 at 06:01 PM.
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