Philippa Whitford
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Philippa Whitford MP |
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| SNP Health Spokesman | |
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Assumed office 20 May 2015 |
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| Leader | Angus Roberston |
| Preceded by | Position established |
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Member of Parliament for Central Ayrshire |
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Assumed office 8 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Brian Donohoe |
| Majority | 13,589 (26.8%) |
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24 December 1958 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Political party | Scottish National Party |
| Spouse(s) | Hans Pieper |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Website | Official website |
Philippa Whitford (born 24 December 1958) is a Scottish surgeon and Scottish National Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Ayrshire since May 2015. She is the SNP Health spokesperson in the House of Commons.
Whitford was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and moved to Scotland at the age of 10. She was educated at Wood Green: St. Angela's Providence Convent Secondary School in London and Douglas Academy in Milngavie, before studying at the University of Glasgow, where she graduated with medical degrees.
Whitford worked as a consultant breast surgeon at Crosshouse Hospital for more than 18 years.
Just after the First Gulf War and during the First Palestinian Intifada at the age of 30, Whitford served for a year and a half as a medical volunteer in a UN hospital in Gaza. She spent the 2016 parliamentary recess travelling to the West Bank to operate on 4 women suffering from breast cancer, and visited the Gaza Strip to advise local hospitals on how to improve health care.
Whitford joined the Scottish National Party in 2012. She became involved with the campaigning that occurred during the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. She had spoken in favour of independence, advocating it as a way of protecting NHS Scotland from the same kind of "creeping privatisation agenda undermining services in England." She helped bring the NHS to the fore of the independence campaign when an online video of her arguing against the dangers of privatisation went viral.
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