The government is lacking detail over Brexit planning
Medicine and Science from The BMJ
September 4, 201936m 50s
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Show Notes
Brexit.
Who knows what’s going to happen in the next few weeks, months, years - the uncertainty is high.
In the face of that, you’d hope that the government was doing all it could to plan for any eventuality - let alone for a massive, country altering one like suddenly crashing out without a deal - but Martin McKee, professor of public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and David Nicholl, Consultant Neurologist, don’t think that’s the case.
In the debate about Brexit, increasingly we’re hearing about the impact on health in the UK - and in increasingly doomed ways. But what about across the rest of Europe? Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, president of the European Public Health Association, explains a little about what Brexit means for the whole of European public health.
Assessing the health effects of a “no deal” Brexit:
https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5300