Stated position 07 of 10
The NHS
The shortest of the ten policy papers. Its proposals centre on who staffs the NHS and who it serves, which makes the official workforce statistics the natural companion reading.
Primary sourceThe policy paper
Attribution matters: this page summarises the Restore Britain policy paper titled
“Restore the National Health Service”, dated 13 February 2026. The headline wording and framing are the party’s own;
the summary below reports the published position and does not ask the reader to accept its diagnosis,
evidence or remedy without checking the sources.
What the paper publishes
The proposals, in summary.
Condensed from the policy paper. Wording in quotation marks is the paper’s own;
everything else is this site’s plain-English summary of it.
Read the full paper at restorebritain.org.uk
- Prioritise employing British-trained doctors, while accepting what the paper calls “ultra-high skilled migrants” into the healthcare workforce.
- Remove the cap on medical school places so more British students can train in medicine.
- Free hospital car parking for NHS staff, patients and visitors.
The paper in full
The complete text, as published.
Reproduced verbatim from the Restore Britain policy paper dated 13 February 2026 so the position can be
read whole, not just in summary. Every claim, figure and turn of phrase below is the party’s own;
only the formatting has been simplified.
Original pagerestorebritain.org.uk
Restore the NHS as a NATIONAL health service.
The NHS must serve the British people as its first and only priority. We will accept ultra-high skilled migrants to work within our healthcare system, but we will not support millions of low-skilled migrants who contribute nothing yet take so much.
Free car parking for NHS staff, patients, and visitors on tight permits.
Medical school caps will be demolished. We would allow talented young British men and women to train in medicine. The NHS will then be forced to employ them over foreign staff.
The stated diagnosis
The problem as the party frames it.
The paper frames the NHS as having drifted from serving the British people first, and argues that enrolment caps block talented British students from medicine.
The NHS's actual dependence on internationally trained staff, and the scale of the training pipeline, are both published in detail — which makes this objective unusually easy to test against the record.
How to test this position
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Check the workforce mixNHS workforce statistics record how many doctors and nurses trained overseas. What share of current staffing would the policy need to replace, and over what period?
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Price the pledgesExpanding medical school places and abolishing parking charges both carry recurring costs. Are they quantified?
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Mind the timescaleTraining a consultant takes well over a decade. How does the paper bridge the gap between reducing overseas recruitment and new domestic graduates arriving?
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Track the recordCompare with Mr Lowe's Commons questions on health and his votes on NHS legislation.
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Sources for this position
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