How Will Brexit Affect NHS?

Running Head: BREXIT 1
How Will Brexit Affect NHS?
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BREXIT 2
Executive Summary
The following report is about Britain exit and its issues related to NHS. Various issues are
described in the report, such as staffing issues, accessing treatment in UK and abroad, and
finance. The reason behind Brexit is also clearly mentioned by stating its factors. Politics and
policies have a major role to play in the economic development of the nations associated with
EU. The society has different views regarding Brexit, and their viewpoints have been highlighted
in the study.

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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 4
Issues........................................................................................................................... 4
Reason behind emergence of Brexit...................................................................................... 5
Politics and policies relevant to social and health care................................................................6
The views of the society about Brexit.................................................................................... 6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 8
References list................................................................................................................ 9
Gibbs Reflective Cycle.................................................................................................... 11

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Introduction
Brexit is used to describe “British exit”, it means the withdrawal of United Kingdom (UK) from
the European Union (EU). This decision was made on 23rd June 2016, in a referendum, in which
51.9 % voted to support the decision for leaving EU (Triggle, 2018). The Government
implored Article 50 on EU treaty and started a two-year process to leave EU. The due date to
conclude this with UK’s exit was 29th March 2019, but now the deadline has been extended to
31st October 2019. Both the left-wing and the right-wing Eurosceptic have supported the
withdrawal, but pro-Europeanists supported the continuation of membership to maintain the
single market and customs union system.
The Brexit has negatively impacted UK healthcare and services. This paper is written is to have a
relevant understanding of economic policies and politics impact over healthcare. The reason to
choose this topic is to understand the current scenario of UK healthcare with change of economic
conditions due to Brexit.
Issues
The British exit will cause a significant negative impact to the UK National Health Service
(NHS). It will have bad effects on the workforce of NHS, it's financing, vaccines, availability of
medicines and information sharing regarding the market research (Martill & Staiger, 2018).
This negotiated agreement is initiated by the EU and the UK Government but is not accepted by
the Parliament. It is considered that the impact of this agreement will bring many adverse results.
The issues that NHS will face due to Brexit are explained below:
1. Staffing issues
The policies framed under EU allowed the free movement and recognition of qualified
professionals within the European Union. After the Brexit movement, the staffs from EU will not
get such freedom and recognition in UK. The staffing process in NHS will be adversely affected
as NHS staffs are mostly recruited from the European countries (McKenna, 2016). Presently,
NHS is having trouble in recruiting and retaining permanent staffs. There is a total shortfall of
5.9% between the number of post and the staffs available for health care services in NHS.