Immigration crackdown threatens NHS workforce, data show

The NHS and social care have been able to fill many vacancies in recent years by relying on immigration—with more than two thirds of doctors, and almost half of nurses, joining their registers having trained outside the UK. The government’s latest plans to stem the flow, without considering the reasons for this reliance on overseas recruitment, are therefore a concern, write <b>Lucina Rolewicz</b> and colleagues