Nope. Not racist. Qualificationist, yes.
How come I singled out the Nigerians, but said the Jamaicans' evidently were better trained (they can at least identify the eye sockets on a sideways picture of a skull.... ) since both parties are black? Please don't cherry pick what I stated.
And I can absolutely, hand on heart tell you that my team went from 95% UK or EU trained to 50% not UK and EU trained in the past 3-4 years, howabout. We, like many in the NHS, are scouring the world for staff. We get no EU qualified staff applying. At all. Or Australians or New Zealanders, any more. Yes, some South Africans who see which way the wind is blowing, there.
And, full disclosure, the overall staff shortages in the NHS has caused , among other things (like the removal of the bursary and the hatchet job the red tops did on 'Nurses pensions causing the Crash of 2008'...)- the scourge of the NHS, incompetent middle managers, to put erstwhile mid 50s staff back onto night shift, and they've subsequently walked.
I couldn't care less what colour the new staff are, but I care a lot about how qualified they are to do the job. And, I must say, whether they can communicate effectively in English. I don't know whether you'd find it so 'absolutely awful' if it was your child who'd just received 4 times as much radiation as necessary because the person who'd taken the images evidently didn't know what they were doing.
Our Nigerians and Jamaicans have been with us 8 months and 15 months. Not exactly since the beginning of the NHS.
Please do not attempt to twist my words, drowning them out in a chorus of 'Racist!'. But I think those who cited immigration as a reason to Brexit are in for a bit of a shock.