The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced to the Conservative party conference that the NHS needed to become “self-sufficient in doctors” by 2025. But what’s new is the toxic language of immigration coming up against the day-to-day reality of the NHS. What I’ve found is that the NHS is constantly framed as the space that proves that Britain is a tolerant nation. “We’ve got to the point that our own UK-trained doctors don’t feel valued. So does that mean she doesn’t feel the insecurity that many non-UK NHS staff feel?

Source: The Guardian October 16, 2016 08:26 UTC