Impact of Brexit on NHS Services

How the NHS service
will be affected after the
UK will leave the EU

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
How the NHS will be affected after UK will leave the EU........................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
NHS is basically a funded healthcare system in UK that provides necessary health and
social care services to the individuals sustaining in the country. It stands for National healthcare
system (Modi, 2017). However, the system has effected in number of ways after the UK will
leave the EU. The European union is a monitory body and unified trade of almost 28 countries
that provides free flow of people and goods in the country. After getting detached to EU, the
country has to face number of challenges in respect to healthcare services ranging from
workforce to research and regulation. There could be barely any part which remains unaffected
by the decision of UK for to get isolated from EU. The following report will cover the impacts
on the NHS services after UK leave the EU.
MAIN BODY
How the NHS will be affected after UK will leave the EU.
The removal of United kingdom from European union is termed as Brexit. The decision
of UK to take withdrawal from the EU will negatively impact on the National healthcare
services, ranging from financing, workforce, care professionals, availability of medical resources
like medicines or vaccines, medical research as well as sharing of information. There will be
continuous insecurity and uncertainty that could be arise from Brexit and will have a major
impact on medical workforce and moreover on a whole healthcare system of the UK.
Government of UK has to take some necessary measures for mitigating any of the negative
effects that may arise through the withdrawal of UK from EU on the NHS services as well as
care practitioners and patients. However, the impact of Brexit on the overall NHS system will
cover number of areas which is discussed here.
Workforce: NHS is highly reliable on the workers of EU. It consist of around a 10%
portion of doctors and around fiver percent of other staff members such as nurses from European
union. There are more than 16,000 EU workers working in the NHS sectors, if combining the
health an social care (Appleby and Dayan, 2018). However, many of the trusts of NHS is already
facing the struggle for filling the vacancies of healthcare professionals and staff members and
Brexit proved to be an add on on the problem by making the condition even more worse.
Individuals have to migrate from the UK fro better treatment facilities and there will be decline