Healt professionals on the move: analysing Brexit’s influence on diploma recognition and the employment of health care workers

Kovács, Réka (2024) Healt professionals on the move: analysing Brexit’s influence on diploma recognition and the employment of health care workers. ANNALES UNIVERSITATIS SCIENTIARUM BUDAPESTINENSIS DE ROLANDO EÖTVÖS NOMINATAE - SECTIO IURIDICA, 62 (1). pp. 163-188. ISSN 0524-899X

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Abstract

In the area of healthcare Britain has long relied on foreign labour, including EEA professionals benefiting from the automatic recognition of their qualifications based on EU law. As a result of the negotiations on future relationship after Brexit, the previous regime for the recognition of professional qualifications has been completely abolished, and a solution of possible agreements on the initiative of professional organisations has been adopted. The UK however introduced measures unilaterally to maintain previous EU rules concerning the recognition of qualifications, and facilitated the inflow of foreign healthcare staff by easier immigration rules for professionals with NHS or adult social care job offer. The article examines – based on the analysis of the data of the British General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council and of Hungarian authorities – how the 2016 British referendum affected the UK health sector as for the health workforce concerned.

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