NHS treatment entitlement

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  13 April 2015     18:42281190
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  Seems to be fair but the plan seems to be to invoice people after treatment, health tourists would just laugh at that.
  
  
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3036152/Show-passport-use-NHS-Clampdown-stop-migrants-tourists-abusing-Health-Service-costs-2bn-year.html
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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  13 April 2015     19:48281194
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  It would be very difficult for a doctor with ethics to refuse to treat anyone, surely they could hold the passport as a kind of surety.
  
  The ideal solution would be to only allow foreigners into the country with adequate insurance cover.
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  I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  13 April 2015     19:59281195
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  Unfortunately it is easy to have more than one passport for some people, some years during the asylum seekers time here one got pulled up by the police in Malvern Rd for erratic driving. When asked to see his licence the inebriated driver pulled out 3 passports from 3 different countries all with his photo in.