Yet another way in which the often appalling, often racist, anti-immigrant sentiment being successfully whipped up in Britain by various politicians and media is making our country a weaker, worse place to live in for even its ‘native’ citizens.
The health service is being put at risk because overseas health professionals increasingly see the UK as an “unwelcoming, racist” country, in part because of the government’s tough approach to immigration, Jeanette Dickson said.
Record numbers of foreign-born doctors are quitting the NHS and the post-Brexit surge in those coming to work in it has stalled. At the same time, the number of nurses and midwives joining the NHS has fallen sharply over the past year.
Our health system is already seemingly in a desperate condition. Without the migrants that come to our country and generously bestow their skills on us for the good of the entire British population it can only ever move further towards being totally doomed. For which we will all tremendously suffer.
Foreign-born doctors and nurses were being put off by antagonism by politicians towards migrants, media coverage of immigration, the racist abuse of international medical graduates by NHS colleagues and racist aggression by patients toward minority ethnic NHS staff, she said.