Brexit will damage health

I write with sadness. Sadness because of the forecasts of the authors. Sadness also because other factors destroying the health manpower are being ignored.
Looking back:

1. In the early sixties, booming economy. Full employment for the natives. (Please remember that the term NATIVE is used here in its correct sense.) Yet, the native Brits of all occupations and none were going out - wherever the grass looked greener.

2. Specifically doctors and nurses. Many went abroad. Many came back (some did not because they put down roots).

3. By and large the hospital administrators were decent human beings who looked after the medical juniors.
There were no “ directors of manpower”. One hospital secretary instructed the hospital chef to ask a new house surgeon WHAT HE WOULD LIKE TO EAT. Those were the days when food choice was still limited.
QUESTION. Do YOU the chief executives take such care of the juniors?
One hospital secretary actually reminded me to make full use of my annual leave. Another one reminded me that I was entitled to study leave.

4, Doctors from abroad did come over. The General Medical Council used to send out inspectors every five years. The doctors from the inspected and approved medical schools were accepted for full registration. Other doctors - even from the United States of America - could only be registered “temporarily” and on an individual basis of "competence" assumed of acceptable level. A few of them did stay on.

5. In those days, as a by-product of individual contacts between teaching hospital consultants here and abroad, senior registrars would go on exchanges to Scandinavia.

6. Even in those days - 1960s - doctors from abroad would come for six months to some postgraduate teaching hospitals. I remember one from Post-war Germany who worked at Stanmore. His English was very good. Later he became a professor in Rhineland. Admittedly, some doctors from abroad were not very fluent.

7. Nurses. In London, they were, Londoners, some from the provinces, from Ireland, some from the West Indies, from Australia, New Zealand. There were some even from Germany and Italy.
Never heard from any of them of unhappiness about how they were treated. I believe, from my own observations that there was no discrimination. Except once, where a West Indian nurse felt that she had not been accepted for a ward sister’s job because of her colour. I am inclined to share her feelings.

8. Porters, Kitchen and Domestic staff. In London, they were largely from the West Indies, In the Midlands, they were local or Irish. I always saw them treated as fellow human beings. Always politely.

Now I ask:
Do you, the “chief executives”, executives...., senior doctors, senior nurse managers ....... treat the other mortals over whom you hold sway with the kindness and courtesy YOU would like to be extended to you?
Do you treat the doctors, nurses, radiographers, therapists, and other staff, even if they are not natives with the same kindness and consideration as you would expect if you were working abroad?