How will NHS cope after Brexit?

Editor News editor You report local NHS chiefs have spent £458,500 on consultants preparing a report on the future of care in Kent.

Hopefully this will include a consideration of the impact of Brexit on the ability of the NHS to recruit and maintain staff.

A FOI request to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has revealed that 569 employees or 9.67% are from the EU and the Trust has no idea how many will be able to remain or want to after Brexit in March 2019.

The residential care sector is also reliant on low paid staff from eastern Europe and bearing in mind the standard of care in Kent could be better it is difficult to see how the NHS and private care sectors will cope after Brexit. John Cobbett, Hollingbourne Assistant news editor

I write regarding the article by Paul Francis about health chiefs paying £458,500 to consultants to draw up reforms. This is a ridiculous amount of money being wasted which could have been spent on hospital services. This is the same old story regarding the trusts and at the end of it nothing changes. Why do they need to employ consultants? If you can’t run your own organisation you shouldn’t be doing the job. Time to get rid of the so called experts off the boards of NHS Trusts and get the appointments commission to put some ordinary men and women on there to bring some common sense to the proceedings. Cllr John Barned, Maidstone Borough Council, Ukip ward member for Shepway South. Public Inquiry, and not wishing to detract in any way from the valued and sterling work undertaken by the Save Fant Farm Group, I was surprised to read Barbara Skinner’s comments regarding lack of attendance from political parties.

With regard to the Liberal Democrats, both county councillors Dan Daley and Rob Bird attended the inquiry and gave evidence.

Their duties, as representatives for the wider Maidstone central area, made it impossible for them to attend the entire two weeks of the hearing.

Additionally, as an extremely