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Hospital chief places pressure blame on Brexit
The head of a Birmingham hospital has said that the impact of the Brexit vote was slowly being revealed, causing a staff shortage in the NHS with nurses from EU countries returning home.
Speaking to members of the House of Lords, Dame Julie Moore, chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and interim chief executive of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, warned that hospitals across the country were struggling to recruit staff because of cuts in training budgets.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is one in a number of hospitals facing nursing vacancies, with six per cent of nursing vacancies unfilled. According to Moore, at the hospitals vacancy rates stood at around 10 to 15 per cent.
Moore said: “We have traditionally also looked to the international market to come to the UK, but I have to say Brexit has sent a bit of a shockwave through some of the staff we would have traditionally recruited. And in fact, I have had some staff from the EU, from southern Ireland, looking to go back.
“Of great concern to me is some of the incidents of abuse that some of my staff have suffered from patients following Brexit, racist abuse. At the moment I would say we haven’t got enough nurses, doctors, clinical professionals, managers, anybody at the moment, and I’m not confident we are training enough to meet that demand.”
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