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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Have you any proof that foreigners in the same situation as your relative would be offered the treatment while she won't be?
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I was not suggesting that a foreign visitor welcome or not would be offered the treatment they are not offering her. I only brought the subject up because personaly it is a real life example.
The whole point though is that perhaps further resources would be available if they were not being used on foreign visitors. The foreign visitors who come here for
major operations may be low in number, and now and again we will see a touching story in the news (perhaps on the highly regarded BBC !) where somone has been brought to this country for a life saving operation on the NHS. These cases are not common place but they are costing the UK taxpayer.
The NHS is not a charity, it was set up to provide a level of healthcare for people living in the UK, further advances in medical technology has meant a better level of care but also more financial burden on the syste. The top priority of the health service should be to provide a sufficient level of care for UK residents.
I am well aware of the drains put on the NHS as my girlfriend works on a long term care ward, they deal with mainly cancer patients, those who need care before able to return home, those who the council need to find accomodation for, and those who will not leave because it's a warm bed and a hot meal on offer.
They do have a fairly high number of foreign people on her ward, and she does get very annoyed with some nationalities of people who expect the NHS service to provide this that and the other. earlier this year she had one patient who had signed her house over to her son and would not leave, she expected the hospital to provide her with a house. the hospital dealt with social services and the local authority toget her a house, then she complained that the house they offered was not new, it did not have the furniture she wanted etc etc etc.
The hospital bent over backwards wasting lots of resources just to get her out of a bed needed by people who were much more in need. The son refused to learn how to give his mother her daily injections because he expected everything to be provided on a plate. The women was discharged from the hospital and moved into the accomodation provided, and there is now a court case because she is not happy with the level of care provided.
It should of been a simple matter in this case of delivering the woman to her own house that she had conveniently signed over to her son!
This is just one example, yes one of the more extreme that I hear of on a regular basis. The most annoying thing about these people who want something for nothing is the British tax payer is footing the bill.
The NHS is not a charity.