NHS

Human rights groups have published a report exposing how the Government’s “hostile environment” policies have infiltrated all areas of UK life – and giving the public, parliamentarians and civil servants advice on how to bring them down.

The Act places a duty on health boards and NHS Trusts to take steps to calculate and maintain nurse staffing levels in adult acute medical and surgical inpatient wards, as well as a broader duty to consider how many nurses are necessary to provide care for patients sensitively in all settings. 

Chair of the Public Accounts Committee says the NHS 'continues to scrape by on emergency hand-outs'.

The BMA warns that a return to a hard border could put the already pressurised health system in Northern Ireland under more strain, deterring cross border workers and making it harder to retain healthcare professionals in Northern Ireland.