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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Brexit has worsened shortage of nhs doctors analysis shows | Mind Blowing Facts

Staff in a hospital ward
The dropoff has particularly affected four major types of medical specialities – anaesthetics, children, psychiatry, and heart and lung treatment. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Brexit has worsened the UK’s acute shortage of doctors in key areas of care and led to more than 4,000 European doctors choosing not to work in the NHS, research reveals.

The disclosure comes as growing numbers of medics quit in disillusionment at their relentlessly busy working lives in the increasingly overstretched health service. Official figures show the NHS in England alone has vacancies for 10,582 physicians.

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