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There has been a nursing shortfall at NHS in UK last year, the nursing shortage has further worsen this year, the shortage was largely contributed by the Brexit and recent change of the government nursing incentive policy. I believe it is now a perfect timing for Alcidion to expand their combined platform solutions Miya Patient Flow/Patientrack/Smartpage into UK NHS, all of each solution has already been proved working in ANZ and UK hospitals for a number years now, as Ray mention a few times in the presentation there are definitely some immediate cross-sell opportunities in UK.

Last year, for the first time, the number of nurses flowing out of the system exceeded those coming into the system. The UK had come to rely on EU nurses to fill skills gaps, but that supply has been drying up as Brexit begins to bite. The consequence is that nurses in England have among the highest workloads and burnout rates of their EU peers.

Nurses are going without breaks, working 12-hour shifts and extra unpaid hours beyond what they are contracted to do. Patient care is affected by poor staffing levels to the extent that patients’ very survival is threatened and the risk of complications and readmission to hospital increases.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/13/nurseshortages-cost-nhs-24-billion-last-year/

http://theconversation.com/shortage...ting-patient-care-and-threatening-lives-89734

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/23/nhs-england-recruitment-crisis-nursing-vacancies

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/28/number-nhs-managers-soars-nursing-shortage-grows/