The UK government has failed to resolve key post-Brexit issues affecting health and social care nearly a year after the country left the EU, according to a think-tank report that accuses ministers of delaying decisions and negotiating “brinkmanship”.
A report from the Nuffield Trust, published on Monday, suggested that pledges to keep the NHS and medicine prices “off the table” in new trade discussions were largely meaningless without specific commitments to ensure the health service would not have to pay more for drugs.
Restricted access to EU science funding, and staffing pressures worsened by immigration constraints, are among other elements that have yet to be satisfactorily addressed, it warned.