Immigrants (NHS Treatment) Debate

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Chris Bryant

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Immigrants (NHS Treatment)

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Points of Order
Monday 25th March 2013

(11 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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We need to deal with all those issues, and they are all failures of the last Government.

Chris Bryant Portrait Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab)
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There is a problem with recruitment in the NHS not only in England, but in Wales. Last year, Welsh NHS trusts tried to recruit 32 A and E consultants from the UK, but failed to do so and had to go abroad. Is there not a danger that the rhetoric in which the Government are indulging will put off the talented doctors that the NHS in this country needs?

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We owe a great debt to the many talented doctors, nurses and health care assistants who come from overseas and make our NHS what it is. Nothing in our immigration laws will change that.

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