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Health Services: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) health and (b) economic impact of trained healthcare workers leaving their home country to work in the UK on nations in (i) Eastern Euro

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 25 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 30 Jun 2025
Answer: 11 Jul 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential (a) health and (b) economic impact of trained healthcare workers leaving their home country to work in the UK on nations in (i) Eastern Euro
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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11 Jul 2025
Answer published
We hugely value our health and social care workers from overseas who work tirelessly to provide the best possible care and enhance our health and care workforce with their valuable skills, experience and expertise. Internationally educated staff remain an...

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