Streeting says NHS too keen to hire ‘foreign doctors’ – but he probably means just ‘doctors’

Red Tory Health Secretary and his boss are fully committed to rationing services through so-called ‘integrated care’ and replacing doctors with non-doctor ‘associates’

Wes Streeting – the Labour Health Secretary who launched a ‘disgusting, disgraceful’ tirade in the face of Britain’s first Black woman MP in 2018 – has criticised the NHS for being ‘too keen’ to hire foreign doctors.

Successive governments have under-invested in training British doctors for many years, leaving hospitals and GP practices with little choice:

But Streeting may not just have an aversion to hiring foreign doctors. He may not like hiring them at all – both he and his boss are fully committed to the mass use of non-doctor ‘associates’ to pad out NHS numbers – a practice that has already killed patients – and to further privatisation of the NHS.

in recent years, the NHS has become too reliant on pulling the immigration lever.

Wes Streeting to the Tory Telegraph.

Streeting holds this position despite calls from top doctors, medical ‘Royal Colleges’ and the British Medical Association (BMA) to put the plan on hold – and despite the fact that the government’s own analysis concluded that the use of these ‘associates’ poses ‘high risk’ to patients:

So entrenched and recalcitrant is the determination of Streeting, PM Keir Starmer and the colluding General Medical Council (GMC) to not just continue but massively escalate the Tory plan to expand the use of non-doctors to fill medical roles – a key facet of the ‘integrated care’ plan to make healthcare more profitable to private companies by closing hospitals, rationing treatment and ‘downskilling’ the NHS workforce – that the BMA is suing the GMC because of its support for Streeting’s highly dangerous plan, as is a group of expert NHS anaesthetists.

As Streeting is also determined to force dangerous drugs, manufactured by a company convicted for fraud and hiding dangerous side effects, on unemployed and long-term sick people and has taken large donations from private health interests, this determination to close hospitals and force non-doctors onto ill people is unsurprising – but none are traits that should be present in anyone fit to be in charge of the health and wellbeing of millions.

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