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CEFEUS launch Health and Social Care report in Westminster

Canterbury Christ Church University’s Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS) launched its third report on Brexit, and the impact it will have on Kent and Medway.

It was launched on Tuesday 6th March in the Palace of Westminster and hosted by Rosie Duffield, M.P for Canterbury and Whitstable. The Brexit Impact Assessment provides a regional perspective on the influence that Britain’s departure from the European Union will have on Health and Social Care.

Divided under eight broad themes, the report looks at workforce and skills, social care, medicines and medical industry, public health, life sciences and R&D, regulatory regimes, reciprocal healthcare, and finally transport and infrastructure. The report concludes with a series of recommendations from CEFEUS on how to address concerns within each theme.

Joining authors Professor Amelia Hadfield and Visiting Professor Mark Hammond on the panel were Alice Chapman-Hatchet, Director of the Health and Europe Centre, Dr. Robert Stewart, Clinical Design Director of the Design and Learning Centre for Clinical and Social Innovation, Debra Teasdale, Dean of the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at Canterbury Christ University, and finally Pat Hughes, from C3 Health. Attendees at the launch included health professionals from across the country in addition to several members of the House of Lords and House of Commons.

Speaking after the launch, Professor Amelia Hadfield, Director of CEFEUS said

"We divided the report into keys areas; 1.) Impacts which tend to be negative, 2.) Opportunities which we hope can be positive. We have Kent imperatives and specifications. Also where other reports look forward to 2025, this one given the squeeze on health care we felt couldn’t look much further than the end of the transition period, which itself doesn’t have a clear date yet."

"I would like to thank our local M.P. Rosie Duffield for sponsoring this report, and in addition, thank our steering group co-chairs Alice Chapman-Hatchett and Dr. Robert Stewart for the excellent job they both did in guiding us through a very difficult sector."

Photos by Elizabeth Bailey

 

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