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

Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests

A nurse in a hospital bay
The Royal College of Nursing believes the plans ‘risked deepening the NHS workforce crisis’. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests.

Keir Starmer has vowed to curb net migration, with plans to force migrants to wait as long as 10 years to apply to settle in the UK instead of automatically gaining settled status after five years.

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