Philippa Whitford

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Dr Philippa Whitford has been the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayrshire Central since May 2015.

She has been the shadow SNP Westminster group leader on health since her election.[1]

Whitford won her seat in the 2015 general election after defeating the Labour Party's Brian Donohoe, who had held the seat since 1992, by 13,589 votes.[2]

Career

Whitford has been a consultant breast cancer surgeon at Crosshouse hospital in Kilmarnock for over 18 years.

In 1991 Whitford spent a year in Gaza volunteering at a UN hospital.[3]

Staff

Contact

Twitter: @p_whitford_mp
Website: whitford.scot

Parliament

Address: House of Commons,
London,
SW1A 0AA
Telephone: 020 7219 8158
Email: philippa.whitford.mp@parliament.uk

Notes

  1. Parliament.UK Philippa Whitford, accessed 22 May 2015.
  2. BBC News Ayrshire Central, accessed 22 May 2015.
  3. SNP Philippa Whitford, accessed 22 May 2015.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Register of interests of members' secretaries and research assistants, 23 March 2016, parliament.uk, accessed 25 April 2016