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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DavidGrahamJones" data-source="post: 2051124" data-attributes="member: 245335">I'm sorry to hear that you are having such problems in getting an appointment, I think PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison) is also a good place to start.We've done such a fantastic job of frightening off our best source of medical personnel that I'm afraid this is a sign of the times and it isn't going to get any better in the near future. I know that as many as 10% of doctors, 7% of nurses and 6% of therapeutic and technical staff are from the EU.  These figures were 20% higher in 2016. (Source: Parliamentary Research Briefings).If you look at what EU nationals have to do to gain Settled Status I can see the more mobile individuals just going back home as so many have done already. My greatest fear is that the NHS will disappear, especially when countries like the US are already complaining that we have free health and that makes an uneven playing field. I see that Trump wants to make the NHS pay more for drugs rather than make the US pay less.</blockquote>

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