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Bespoke Deals? Get out of your Silo!
October 24, 2017
Besides collectively asking for a Brexit transition period, industries are also looking at what comes after it. After all, a transition is not much use if it simply postpones disaster by a couple of years. In looking beyond this period, each industry is looking at its own interests and they are not yet acting together, despite their interests being rather similar. Essentially, they all want the status quo for their sector.
How to stop Brexit (and make Britain Great again)
October 19, 2017
Former Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has written a book both debunking the myths around Brexit and offering a solution as to how it can be reversed.
A Brexit behind closed doors means a written constitution is more urgent than ever
October 16, 2017
Brexit is widening the fault lines in the UK’s political settlement, which is built on the uneasy foundations of an unwritten constitution. What’s becoming increasingly obvious is that without our rights being enshrined, clear constraints on executive power, and a properly defined relationship between people and the government, ‘we the people’ are vulnerable to the whims of the government of the day.
Brexit and Pharmaceuticals: Access to Medicine
October 16, 2017
A sector that doesn’t raise its voice in public (for fear of annoying ministers) but which is very worried about the consequences of Brexit, is the pharmaceutical industry.
No Deal? Nonsense
October 16, 2017
The idea that, in order to strengthen its position in the Brexit negotiations, Britain must show that it is prepared to walk away without a deal, is a load of nonsense.
Grassroots Action Day Highlights Brexit NHS Threat
October 14, 2017
The European Movement UK ran a day of action on Saturday 14 October highlighting the threats Brexit poses to the NHS in 13 different locations across the UK from Macclesfield to Southsea.
In short supply: pay policy and nurse numbers
October 12, 2017
TOPLINE: The NHS is not prepared for the drop in staffing supply from the EU and faces a significant reduction in capacity regardless of deal the Government reaches in its Brexit negotiations.
SUMMARY: There are pre-exisiting and longstanding issues regarding nurses numbers and pay within the NHS which aren't been solved quickly enough. This crisis has become more acute since the decision to leave the EU. Half of Nurses already don't believe they have enough staff to perform their jobs effectively, and 3,500 EU nurses left the NHS in 2016 - double the figure of the previous year.
Brexit and health and social care—people & process
October 10, 2017
TOPLINE
The Government and Department for Health must produce an assessment of the contingency planning needed for Brexit - although it currently may not have the capacity to do so.
SUMMARY
The Committee has created a comprehensive assessment of the impact Brexit could have on the workforce of the healthcare sector. It has also taken into consideration the work undertaken so far by the Government and more specifically the Department for health, and concluded that whilst they may have undertaken some preliminary work in assessing the potential issues the NHS will face after Brexit, they will need to become much more forensic in their work if they are to properly prepare for the multiple possible scenarios in post-Brexit Britain. The capacity of the relevant departments to do so has found to be lacking, and it is recommended that they bulk up significantly in the coming months.
Brexit and Transport: Going nowhere fast
October 03, 2017
Officials in the transport sector – the people who keep the British economy moving – are becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of attention paid to some vital practical implications of Brexit, as negotiations between the UK and the EU stall.
Rally for Europe Takes Place at Conservative Party Conference
October 02, 2017
Pro-European campaigners descended on Manchester yesterday for a day of action against the government's plans to exit the European Union, as the Conservative Party conference got underway.