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No-deal Brexit could ‘devastate’ NHS
Health union leaders have issued a strong warning to the government that a no-deal Brexit could ‘devastate’ the NHS and cause fatal medicine shortages.
After Prime Minister Boris Johnson received the Queen’s permission to suspend parliament for more than a month ahead of the EU withdrawal date, a joint statement signed by 11 organisations called on the government to take no deal off the table, saying that ‘no responsible government should take that risk’.
The organisations, including the British Medical Association, Royal College of Nursing, Royal College of Midwives, Unison, GMB, Unite and the TUC, argue that such a move could disrupt the supply of life-saving medicines for up to six months and exacerbate the largest staffing crisis in NHS history.
The unions said: “Many medicines, including life-saving agents for cancer diagnosis and therapy, cannot be stockpiled and, for those that can, stockpiles could run out. These kinds of shortages and delays can be fatal. No responsible government should take that risk.”
The statement echoes a letter written to Boris Johnson from the heads of 17 royal colleges and charities, in which concerns over medicine shortages were highlighted as a major concern.
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