The author reflects on their personal experience in the NHS, highlighting the vital contributions of immigrant staff who provided crucial care despite the pressure on services. They also recount the supportive role of care home workers for their mother with Alzheimer's. The article critiques Keir Starmer's harsh comments on immigration, which the author felt ignored the invaluable contributions of immigrants to healthcare and society at large, drawing parallels with historical rhetoric that devalues diversity.
The hospital may have been stretched to breaking point but its staff could not have done more for me.
They, too, had come to this country from all over the world to do the job that few others wanted to do.
It was his language, more than the measures in the white paper, that stuck in the throat.
Starmer said immigration had done incalculable damage to the country; that he was putting an end to this squalid chapter in this country's history.
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