Post-brexit NHS costs

INTERESTING NUMBERS

The Nuffield Trust – the healthcare think-tank – said the NHS could face a bill of almost half-a-billion pounds if retired British people living in other EU countries decide to return to the UK because their right to healthcare in those countries is withdrawn after Brexit. The trust also warned that the social care sector could be 70,000 workers short by 2025-26 if migration of unskilled workers from the EU stops after Brexit.