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NHS IS NOW THE FREE WORLD HEALTH SERVICE

 
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:59 pm    Post subject: NHS IS NOW THE FREE WORLD HEALTH SERVICE Reply with quote

NHS is now a 'world health service': Campaigners warn lax system is too open to abuse by foreignersGovernment has written off �35million of free treatment for health tourists over the last eight years
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 09:07, 30 April 2012 | UPDATED: 16:57, 30 April 2012

No national standard: Mr Burns admittecd it was up to each GP whether to register a foreign national on a six-month visitor's visa
GPs have too much freedom to register sick foreigners who may not be entitled to expensive British healthcare, campaigners said today.

Migration Watch UK claimed family doctors could decide whether to take on patients without identity documents and give them free treatment which should not be available to them.

The revelation follows a written Parliamentary answer from Health Minister Simon Burns admitting there was no formal requirement for foreigners to provide documentation when registering with a GP.

Mr Burns said: 'A decision on whether to register a foreign national who has a six-month visitor's visa is therefore currently for the GP to consider.'

Migration Watch chairman Sir Andrew Green said today: 'What this means is that someone getting off a plane with a valid visitor's visa is in effect able to access the GP services of the NHS without ever having paid a penny into the system.

'Once registered with a GP it is, in practice, an easy step to potentially highly-expensive and long term treatment - all at the expense of the UK taxpayer with little or no prospect of the beneficiaries ever being charged for it.'



Sir Andrew said it was not for doctors to 'act as an arm of the immigration service' and warned of 'clear and substantial risks of abuse in such a lax system'.
Waiting room: Mr Burns said the existing system 'is still too complex, generous and inconsistently applied'
He added: 'The present situation is outrageous. Everyone knows the pressure the NHS is under and its ever increasing cost to the taxpayer.

'To allow such easy and potentially hugely-expensive access without any entitlement must be stopped at once, otherwise the NHS risks becoming the World Health Service.'
Last year, Simon Burns revealed that health tourists have taken at least �35million of free treatment over the last eight years.
That is the sum health service bosses have written off after foreign patients came to the UK for treatment � and left without paying.
The Department of Health is still trying to recover millions more from thousands of others who have abused British hospitality, so the real figure could be far higher.
Simon Burns said the Government was reviewing current health arrangements for overseas visitors
Entitlement to free NHS hospital treatment is based on a patient being �ordinarily resident� in the UK.

Anyone else will be charged for the full cost of any treatment they receive unless an exemption applies to the particular therapy.

While treatment in an accident and emergency department is automatically free to all, emergency care elsewhere is not. However urgent treatment, such as maternity care, will always be given regardless of residence status or ability to pay afterwards.
UK Border Agency officials see 150 cases a year at Gatwick Airport of heavily pregnant passengers arriving with visitor visas.
Last year the Home Office and Department of Health admitted the existing system 'is still too complex, generous and inconsistently applied.'

They promised stricter checks to make sure the details of overseas patients are properly recorded so hospitals can recover any debt.

Also those visitors who have run up �1,000 or more in medical debts will not be allowed back into the country.
However, the decision as to whether visitors should be charged for GP services and other NHS services outside of hospitals is still under review.
Mr Burns said: 'We won't tolerate abuse of our National Health Service. The NHS has a duty to anyone whose life or long-term health is at immediate risk but it is not there to serve the health needs of the globe.

'There are comprehensive rules and procedures to charge visitors for hospital treatment but we know that the system needs to be improved.

'That is why we are currently reviewing those arrangements to prevent inappropriate free access to the NHS and provide a fairer, more balanced system.'


Not just the NHS - also social housing, inner city transportation, council tax, prescription charges, passport control, student visa's, employment rights, benefits of all types etc, etc.
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PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2012 5:39 pm    Post subject: NHS stupidity. Reply with quote

Once Paki,Indian and Black African docs get into the GP role its a free for all and their relatives soon get on the NHS gravy train for free treatment.
Not only this but my sis who was a midwife in London said that Cypriot women would come and stay with a relative to have free maternity treatment although they had no entitlement and it was never stopped.
Foreign health tourists know they do n ot even need a GP. Just turn up at a hospital in A and E and you're in for free treatment.
My daughter who is a doc says she gets Americans,Russians Africans and the whole world free loading on a very regular basis.
The UK is a fool and our governments weak and debased.
We have been utterley betrayed by left-wing politicians.
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