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New figures reveal that 26,000 EU nationals have left the NHS since 2016 with one hospital witnessing a 94% rise in departures in 2017.
The explosive new research has been carried out by anti-Brexit campaigners Best for Britain and uncover the devastating scale of EU nationals leaving vital public services since the Brexit vote.
In the biggest research project ever undertaken on EU nationals in the UK working in public services, Best for Britain issued Freedom of Information requests to over a thousand NHS trusts, universities, fire services, ambulance services, national parks, local councils and government departments - revealing a massive 40,000 EU nationals have left since the Brexit referendum.
The data shows the number of EU nationals leaving soared in the year after the referendum, suggesting Brexit is pushing vital public sector workers out of the UK. Across the public bodies who supplied data on EU nationals in their staff, there was a 15% jump between 2016 and 2017.
Read more: Rise in number of EU nationals leaving the NHS since Brexit vote
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Patients will be able to book and change medical appointments online, receive text reminders and even access maps showing them where in a hospital they need to go through a digital patient tool set to be trialled in ten hospitals. The online portal, DrDoctor, is set to save the NHS tens of millions of pounds by slashing the number of missed appointments as well as making it easier and more convenient for patients to make and manage bookings. Patients can also fill in medical forms before they arrive using the system and receive appointment letters digitally. DrDoctor is already used in ten hospitals including Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Frimley Health NHS Trust and will soon be trialled in 11 more across the country as the NHS works to ensure every penny is spent wisely.
Hospitals using the tool are: saving up to £2m a year each by cutting missed appointments; are seeing the number of appointments where patients don’t turn up falling by almost a third and are cutting their postage costs by more than a quarter. The tool will be trialled at NHS sites specially selected to test the impact of DrDoctor across a variety of hospitals, from small specialist sites to large inner city hospitals, with plans for the pilot to be in place by March.
Read more: NHS to trial tech to cut missed appointments and save up to £20 million
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Science Minister Sam Gyimah MP met with leading academics and tech disruptors in Boston, Houston and Washington DC to announce a further research partnership in medical technology, and learn from the industry.
He also revealed plans to embark on a further fact-finding mission to Texas in November, accompanied with academics and business representatives from the UK’s life sciences sector. The party will set meetings with American colleagues, and “seek out opportunities for global innovation” by exploring how the UK can more easily infiltrate US markets.
“Science has no borders. By collaborating with our US colleagues, we are pooling our power to find the answers to the biggest science questions of today and making the most of the inventions of tomorrow,” Gyimah said.
Read more: Science Minister announces research partnership in medical technology with USA.
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Professor Wendy Reid, executive director of education & quality and national medical director at Health Education England (HEE), shares insight into the work of her organisation and explores the ways in which we must prepare the NHS for its next 70 years.
Workforce retention and rota gaps are two of the most significant issues impacting upon the delivery of excellent care across the NHS. At HEE, we have heard this loud and clear. We are listening to doctors in training and know that there are a number of things we can do to help improve their working lives. In turn, this will help trusts address their workforce challenges by encouraging more people to become doctors and remain in medicine.
Our work on Enhancing Junior Doctors’ Working Lives, which is inspired by doctors in training and has their voice as its key driver, is a vital element in ensuring that we have a highly skilled, highly motivated medical workforce, providing high-quality patient care and experience.
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Matt Hancock has told Newsbeat there is "loads to do on that area" when asked if they would help the NHS. There needs to be more use of apps in the National Health Service, the new health secretary says.
He was speaking as he gave more details of the government's plans to transform children and young people's mental health services.
The 39-year-old became the first MP to launch an app in his previous job as culture secretary. "One of the things I've done in different parts of government is make sure that it's more tech savvy and digital," he told Newsbeat. "The NHS needs to be more convenient for you, but also to help clinicians so that doctors' and nurses' lives are easier.
Read more: New health secretary Matt Hancock says use more apps
