PMQs in the House of Commons on Wednesday heard many MPs praise our NHS on its 75th Birthday. The SNP’s Westminster deputy leader Mhairi Black MP gave the House some startling statistics on our NHS’s 75th Birthday, statistics that are certainly of England’s own making, but unfortunately have impacted on Scotland very badly.
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Ms Black informed the House that since Brexit, the number of European nurses registering to work in the UK has fallen by 90% and this has also had a detrimental impact on doctors coming from Europe to work in the UK.
Scotland simply must get control of immigration and get herself back into the EU if we are going to impact on those dreadful statistics. Our NHS deserves nothing less going forward and independence is the ultimate answer to achieving those aims.
Catriona C Clark
Falkirk
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