3mo ago

Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK, study finds

Quality of care dropped as staff were replaced with less experienced nurses, researchers at the University of Surrey say

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Might have got a few more months/years out of my dad if they'd actually taken him seriously instead of fobbing him off for two weeks before discovering his pancreatic cancer at an ultrasound to prove it was actually kidney stones causing his textbook pancreatic cancer symptoms.
- That sucks. I'm sorry for your loss.
Populism is the opium of the fuckwits
Brexit was dumb.
That said this sounds like an overstatement.
We average between 550k to 600k deaths a year. So 1.5k is well under 0.3%.
Add the fact it is almost impossible to put such deaths down to 1 cause. They were after allin NHS care.
And it very much sounds like the usual press over enthusiastic support for a small comment in the data. Not something clearly identified by the study authors.