Impact of Brexit to have a negative effect on Britain’s NHS
Remaining in the EU was not included in the analysis but is better overall for health than any form of Brexit, the same authors outlined in a paper published in The Lancet in 2017.
Little evidence exists that the UK is prepared for any of the eventualities set out in their analysis, they warn. “Some people will dismiss our analysis as ‘Project Fear,’ ” said Prof Martin McKee, co-author from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine . “But with just over a month to go to Brexit, we need to move beyond slogans. It just isn’t good enough to keep saying that “something will work out” without any details of exactly how.”
Among the concerns for Britain’s health service raised in the study are recruitment and retention post-Brexit, arrangements for reciprocal healthcare arrangements with other European states, access to financing from the European Investment Bank and continuing supply chains for medicines. Despite British government reassurance about contingency plans – drug shortages are likely because stockpiling arrangements cannot cope beyond a few weeks – proposals that doctors offer “best alternative medication” can be distressing for patients. And some products cannot be stockpiled, the study notes., from the School of Law, University of Sheffield, said: “It’s critical to be clear about the practical effects of disentangling over 40 years of legal integration.
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