Yet another shocking case of a foreign doctor killing an elderly patient in Britain has highlighted the urgent need for a complete overhaul of the National Health Service’s staffing policies, as demanded by the British National Party’s health policy programme.

Dr Daniel Ubani, an African who was bizarrely described as a “German doctor” by the controlled media, was employed as a locum to provide out of hours care from a base in Suffolk when he  killed the patient with a morphine overdose on his first ever shift in Britain.

During his first day’s cover in Britain he was called for a routine visit to the Cambridgeshire home of 70-year-old David Gray who was suffering from kidney pains. But instead of administering pethidine — a moderate painkiller — to the patient, Dr Ubani injected him with 10 times the dose of morphine, after confusing the two.

Three hours after the consultation, Mr Gray died at his home in Manea. The sad incident revealed how the current system of out-of-hours care is reliant on foreign doctors who are unfamiliar with British practices and have no previous knowledge of their patients.

In 2004, about 90 percent of GP surgeries chose to stop providing night-time and weekend care — so the service is provided by external agencies in most parts of the country. As a result, nearly half of Britain’s surgeries hire overseas doctors. Almost a third of practices in Northumberland, Tyneside and East Anglia employ GPs from overseas.

While an investigation was underway into Dr Ubani’s treatment, he fled to work at a clinic in Germany. After a European Arrest Warrant was issued to bring him back to the UK to stand trial for manslaughter, he was charged in Germany with the crime. In yet another bizarre loophole created by the European Union, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in front of a German Court, who sentenced him to a nine-month suspended prison sentence and €5000 (£4,500) fine. The CPS are now likely to close their case against Dr Ubani, as under the double-jeopardy rule people cannot be prosecuted twice for the same crime unless there are specific exceptions.

The British National Party demands that the NHS be properly funded so that it is staffed once again by British people who can earn a decent wage out of their profession. To view the BNP’s health policy, click here.