Big Read: Week 2 | The importance of Immigration in staffing the NHS
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Time: 5.00pm - 6.00pm
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free
The NHS has been a world-leading example of social healthcare since its inception in 1948. However, work-force shortages in its earliest days nearly brought the fledgling service to its knees. Now, the NHS is facing the same under-staffing crisis as all those decades ago. Join us in exploring the invaluable role migrant workers (many of whom arrived that same year, aboard the Empire Windrush) played in building our National Health Service, and discussing the injustices faced by many of those essential healthcare workers in the years and decades that followed.
Speakers:
- Claire Thurgate, Professor of Nursing and Head of Nursing at KU
- Ricarda Micallef, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, Kingston University
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