Philippa Whitford

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.

Early life

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.

Surgical career

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 had served for a year and a half as a medical volunteer in a UN hospital in Gaza.

Political career

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.

Whitford

Whitford may refer to:

Whitford (SEPTA station)

Whitford Station is a commuter rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at South Whitford Road and Spackman Lane, Exton, Pennsylvania. It is served by most Paoli/Thorndale Line trains.

The Whitford Flyover

Whitford Station is best known for the abandoned railway trestle that sits directly above the station site. The current station sits along the once-busy former Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) four-track Main Line, which, in its prime, hosted a constant flow of commuter and long distance trains. To circumvent constant bottlenecks near Philadelphia, the PRR constructed a low-grade double-track electrified line in 1906 to host its freight traffic. This was done to bypass the steep grades and busy Philadelphia suburbs. Known as the Philadelphia and Thorndale Branch (or the "High Line"), the line ran alongside the current Paoli/Thorndale Line, crossing (or "flying") over it via a massive trestle directly above the Whitford Station. After the sharp decline in rail traffic in the 1970s, the freight line was abandoned outright by Conrail in 1989. In addition, the current passenger line was reduced from four tracks to three in the 1960s.

Whitford (provincial electoral district)

Whitford was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was created in 1913 out of the south west part of the Pakan district and the north part of Vegreville.

In 1940 the district was split between Redwater, Willingdon and Vegreville.

The district was named after the north west town of Whitford, Alberta.

Election results 1913 - 1935

Single Transferable Vote 1935

First Past the Post 1913 - 1930

1921 - 1930

1913 - 1917

By-Election reasons

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