EU citizens must have legal rights or more doctors will be lost, warns BMA

More doctors could be lost to the UK if the government fails to guarantee in law the rights of EU citizens living here, the chair of the BMA has warned.

Chaand Nagpaul was responding to a report from the Home Affairs Committee,1 which raised serious concerns about the current EU Settlement Scheme.

The scheme is supposed to grant eligible EU citizens the right to legal residence in the UK when it leaves the EU. But the committee said that problems with the scheme and uncertainty over the future rights of …