Kings College Hospital has attracted international attention after EU staff told the New York Times they plan to quit Britain after Brexit.

One paediatric nurse told the paper it felt like she had “woken up in a different country” the day after the referendum last year.

Tanja Pardela, from Germany left Britain last week, she has decided to keep her British bank account open hoping one day the value of the pound coin will rise. The fall in the value of pound affected her own savings.

“Brexit was a trigger,” said Ms. Pardela. “It makes you reassess your life. You find yourself thinking: ‘I’m working really hard. I haven’t had a pay raise in four years. Now they’re telling me they don’t want immigrants? Why am I still doing this here?’ ”

According to the latest Governmental statistics available 122,000 EU staff members left their occupations in March.

Kings College Hospital, Camberwell

The paediatric institute within Kings College Hospital is short of 528 nurses and midwives and 318 doctors. Pre- Brexit, the NHS suffered from chronic staff shortages, the country has 40,000 nursing vacancies.

Ms Pardela, who left the country on November 26 described she will miss jacket potatoes, Sunday roasts and her morning commute past playing fields, small children in school uniforms and a red telephone box to the hospital where she was a paediatric nurse for 11 years.

There are fears that EU professionals could lose rights to job security, pensions and access to free health care.