EU Doctors and Nurses Save the UK Billions

That the Parliament acknowledges the findings of a study by Medbelle that has calculated how much the UK has received in income tax from EU nationals working in the medical industry and the money saved in terms of UK education spending; understands that, in the last five years, the UK received £1.5 billion in income taxes and saved a further £1.6 billion by hiring EU medical professionals who were trained overseas; understands that this sum is equivalent to paying for 3,456 MRI scanners, at £895,000 per scanner, 562,427 hip operations, at £5,500 per operation, or the salaries of 57,928 nurses with five year’s professional experience for one year, at an average salary of £53,400; appreciates the huge value that foreign-born doctors and nurses working in the NHS bring to the UK in terms of their experience and wealth of knowledge, and recognises what it considers the likely negative impacts that Brexit will have on attracting and retaining EU doctors and nurses in the future.