NHS could ‘cease to function’ under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

06/10/2025 14:52 The Guardian

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UKThe NHS and social care would “cease to function” under the government’s new rules to be imposed on foreign staff, nursing leaders have warned, as hundreds of medics condemned the policy as “divisive and xenophobic”.In the most explicit attack yet on Labour’s proposed restrictions on overseas workers, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) described the plan as “ignorant” and “pandering” to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Continue reading...

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