{"id":85683,"date":"2026-02-27T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85683"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:41:19","slug":"drop-in-overseas-workers-is-car-crash-for-uk-hospitals-and-care-homes-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/drop-in-overseas-workers-is-car-crash-for-uk-hospitals-and-care-homes-say-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop in overseas workers is \u2018car crash\u2019 for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/607b1bf27ae89abd28c5043d70d228f2bdf4e9cc\/0_0_4320_3456\/master\/4320.jpg?width=480&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"A nurse writing something down at a workstation on a hospital ward as other medics walk by\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hospitals and care homes in the UK face \u201can impending car crash\u201d, experts have warned, as research shows the number of overseas nurses and carers has collapsed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/feb\/26\/drop-in-overseas-workers-uk-hospitals-and-care-homes\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hospitals and care homes in the UK face \u201can impending car crash\u201d, experts have warned, as research shows the number of overseas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-and-social-care"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Carer-at-work.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85684,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85683\/revisions\/85684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}