UK risks becoming reliant on overseas care workers, report warns

Analysis suggests demand for foreign staff has left care homes and NHS open to ‘vulnerabilities’

The UK risks becoming highly reliant on overseas care workers after nearly 58,000 visas were issued for the sector last year, a report says.

Analysis by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford found that the demand for foreign staff had left the NHS and care homes open to “vulnerabilities” including “exposure to international competition for health workers and risks of exploitation”.