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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday North of England editor

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Staff on an NHS hospital ward in London.
Staff on an NHS hospital ward in London. About one in five NHS staff in England are not British, according to official figures. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

The NHS and social care would cease to function under the government’s new rules to be imposed on foreign staff, nursing leaders have said, as hundreds of medics condemned the policy as “divisive and xenophobic”.

In the most explicit attack yet on Labour’s proposed restrictions on overseas workers, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) described the plan as “ignorant” and “pandering” to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

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