NHS faces £500m-a-year bill post-Brexit for returning retirees, says thinktank

If current EU healthcare scheme for retired UK citizens ends, NHS costs will climb, with nurse and care worker shortages set to have a further impact The NHS would be hit with a bill for an extra £500m a year if all the retired British citizens now living in Europe could no longer get care post-Brexit and returned to the UK, a report from a healthcare thinktank has calculated.According to the Nuffield Trust, the cost of Brexit to the NHS and social care system would be higher still if the