The leading doctors’ association has warned that government plans for a no-deal Brexit contain no detail on who will transport critical medicines into the UK and risk creating a winter crisis in the NHS.
The British Medical Association said that the “no-deal readiness report” published yesterday leaves many unanswered questions for the NHS.
It also warned that the health service may have to brace itself for an influx of Britons who live abroad returning to use the NHS this winter because of uncertainty over whether their healthcare will be covered in EU countries.
Chaand Nagpaul, the BMA council chairman, said: “With little more than three weeks to go until Brexit day, there’s no sign of who is going to provide an emergency transport service for
