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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Andrew Gregory Health editor

Top cancer experts ‘being put off UK by politicians’ messaging on immigration’

A carbon nanotube
View looking down into carbon nanotube that delivers cancer drugs right to the site of disease during chemotherapy treatment. Photograph: Greenshoots Communications/Alamy

The world’s best cancer doctors, scientists and researchers are being put off moving to or staying in the UK by politicians’ rhetoric on immigration, a leaked report reveals.

Recruiting and retaining “global talent” to treat NHS patients and find new ways to cure cancer is vital, amid an acute British workforce crisis and rising numbers being diagnosed with the disease.

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