Nearly half of foreign NHS nurses plan to quit Starmer Britain

[Lentilweaver]

Predictably.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/14/nearly-half-of-foreign-nhs-nurses-plan-quit-starmer-britain/

When did they stop being there? They were certainly there in 2019, what’s happened since then?

Can you really not think of anything that may have happened to the NHS since 2019??? It is hugely dysfunctional and has not recovered financially post-Covid, it is cut to the bone and beyond. The NHS of 2019 is not the NHS of 2025.

I read on another thread that some British nurses were struggling to get a job. That’s madness. Jobs for Brits!

The NHS has always been cut to the bone apart from the first decade of this century. The pandemic and its aftermath should mean more nursing recruitment now as the government meets its pledge to catch up with the crazy waiting lists. I appreciate that I have no experience or knowledge of Scotland but I thought the Scottish government spent more on health than England.

@BIossomtoes not a clue? We’re in Chester and they simply cannot get a job.

Scotland has a smaller, proportionately more elderly population. The costs for elderly care are even more acute in Scotland where there are more old people per young tax payer and often in rural and remote communities and islands. Add in free prescriptions and baby boxes and you will see why Scottish health services are more expensive.

Absolutely true that newly qualified nurses here are not being employed and imported nurses are being used instead. Something smells odd doesn’t ? Anyone would think the idea is to make Nigel Farage more popular.

And Scotland pay more and work a shorter week (for AHPs anyway not sure about nurses)