Johnson's promise to recruit NHS staff is more smoke and mirrors
16 DAYS TO POLLING DAY Dishonest to promise more nurses under Boris Johnson Lib Dems reveal that 3,250 NHS staff from the EU have left the health service so far this year alone including 1,116 nurses. It is dishonest to promise there will be more nurses under Boris Johnson's Conservatives. Our NHS has been consistently hit by the Conservatives' NHS and social care cuts, putting the lives of loved ones right across the country at risk. It is insulting to the public and all those who work in the NHS for Boris Johnson to celebrate the return of nurse bursaries. It was the Tories who scrapped them in the first place. What the Tories have actually promised at this election is to tax our nurses. By extending the Immigration health surcharge and immigration visa fee to EU health professionals, more and more of EU nurses will see little reason to stay here in the UK. Our NHS currently relies on 20,000 EU nurses, 10,000 EU doctors, and we've already lost more than 5,000 EU nurses in the last 2 years Over 11,600 NHS
