Fact checks related to the impact a changing population has on the NHS
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A Facebook post appears to have repeated an old claim that the Lancet medical journal said 6.5 million migrants had registered with GPs in the last 10 years. Read
It is true that tens of thousands of NHS staff are from other EU countries, and that other EU nursing numbers have noticeably dropped. Read
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EU nationals make up a similar percentage of the NHS workforce in England now as they did in 2016. Read
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A post circulating on Facebook makes claims about how much the UK pays out to other EU countries for health costs incurred by UK citizens abroad. Read
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In the year to September 2017 the number of nurses from the EU leaving the NHS in England outweighed those joining it for the first time in at least five years. Read
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9,800 staff reporting they were from the EU left NHS England between June 2016 and June 2017. Read
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The government has an “ambition” to recover £500 million a year by 2017/18 from overseas patients not eligible for free NHS treatment. Read
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Estimates show health tourism costs up to £300 million a year, but savings from this alone won't fill the gap in funding for the NHS. Read
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The government has previously estimated that "health tourism" costs the NHS around 0.3% of NHS spending allocated to specific services. Read
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The Independent and the Mirror have reported very different figures on the number of nurses who'll be affected by recent visa changes. Read
