1. Philippa Whitford was born on 24 December 1958 and is a Scottish National Party politician and a breast surgeon.
16 Facts About Philippa Whitford
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Philippa Whitford previously served as the SNP Spokesperson for Scotland from December 2022 to September 2023.
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Philippa Whitford served as the SNP Health spokesperson in the House of Commons from 2015 to 2021.
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Philippa Whitford 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.
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Philippa Whitford was the first woman in her family to gain admission to university.
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Philippa Whitford worked as a consultant breast surgeon at Crosshouse Hospital for more than 18 years.
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Just after the First Gulf War and during the First Palestinian Intifada at the age of thirty, Philippa Whitford served for a year and a half as a medical volunteer in a United Nations hospital in the Gaza Strip.
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Philippa Whitford spent the 2016 parliamentary recess travelling to the West Bank to operate on four women suffering from breast cancer, and visited Gaza to advise local hospitals on how to improve healthcare.
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Philippa Whitford became involved with the campaign preceding the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
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Philippa Whitford advocated independence as a way of protecting NHS Scotland from the same kind of "creeping privatisation agenda undermining services in England".
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Philippa Whitford was selected to contest Central Ayrshire for the SNP at the 2015 general election.
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Philippa Whitford made her maiden speech in the House of Commons on 2 June 2015.
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Philippa Whitford was a member of the Joint Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill, but left the committee on 11 March 2019 to be replaced by Liz Saville Roberts.
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In March 2021 Philippa Whitford compared Scotland's position as part of the United Kingdom to a woman "locked" in a room and who had had her cheque book "taken away".
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Philippa Whitford announced in July 2023 that she would stand down at the 2024 general election.
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Philippa Whitford has been married to Hans Pieper, a German citizen who works as a general practitioner, since 1987; the couple have a son together.