Issuing identity cards would help avert a larger Windrush-style scandal post-Brexit, ministers have been told. Leading academic Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve argued of the need for “robust identification documents”, demonstrating
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Brexit could drive up the cost of medicines for UK patients and the NHS and put at risk access to treatments, a parliamentary report has warned. The UK pharmaceutical industry
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Westminster has been urged to “respect the will” of the Scottish Parliament and make further changes to key Brexit legislation, after MSPs refused to give their consent to the EU
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Immigration policy should be devolved to UK nations and regions after Brexit to cater for different labour needs, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said. Speaking in London, she hit
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Health care staff in Northern Ireland are uncertain and concerned about the ability to retain and hire EU colleagues post-Brexit. Nurses and doctors who live across the Irish border but
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Ministers have been urged to adopt a “health in all policies” approach after Brexit to help tackle inequality. Labour’s Luciana Berger said it was a “terrible indictment” on society that
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Nursing leaders have expressed “major concern” as rising numbers of nurses from the EU continue to leave the UK. New figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) – which
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Failure to replace a £500 million EU fund for deprived communities post-Brexit would be “disastrous”, the Government has been warned. The European Social Fund provides half a billion pounds a
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Brexit could exacerbate a “severe workforce crisis” in the care sector, potentially forcing homes and others services to shut, the industry has warned. Scottish Care, the organisation that represents independent
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Almost four-fifths of British workers expect to become poorer over the coming year, as wages fail to keep pace with inflation, according to a new report. Released on the same
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