NHS passport checks have tripled income recouped in first scheme Passport checks on patients before treatment can almost triple the amount of money the NHS can recoup from health tourists, new figures suggest.
The Health Secretary last night said the findings, from the first such scheme, were “very encouraging” amid furious debate about proposals to extend such measures.
Yesterday Theresa May threw her support behind the plans, saying it was fair that overseas patients should provide “credible evidence” of their eligibility for free healthcare.
But doctors’ unions attacked the idea, saying that the money lost to health tourism was a “pinprick” of a problem for the NHS, while Labour said medics must not be treated as “border guards.” The Daily Telegraph
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The Health Secretary last night said the findings, from the first such scheme, were “very encouraging” amid furious debate about proposals to extend such measures.
Yesterday Theresa May threw her support behind the plans, saying it was fair that overseas patients should provide “credible evidence” of their eligibility for free healthcare.
But doctors’ unions attacked the idea, saying that the money lost to health tourism was a “pinprick” of a problem for the NHS, while Labour said medics must not be treated as “border guards.” The Daily Telegraph
See also:
- Should NHS patients have to show their passport? BBC News
- Passports for NHS access plan: what are the implications? The Guardian
- NHS staff and managers condemn 'passport before treatment' plan The Guardian
- Doctors threaten to boycott plan for patients to show ID at hospitals The Guardian
- I’m a doctor, not a gatekeeper turning ‘health tourists’ away | Rachel Clarke The Guardian
- NHS passport-checking might save a few pence – at the cost of our humanity | Diane Taylor The Guardian
- Proposals to help NHS charge overseas patients ‘go much too far’ OnMedica
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