Proposals for NHS hospitals in England to charge overseas patients upfront for non-urgent care will not work in practice
Posted
on February 06
Proposals for NHS hospitals in England to charge overseas
patients upfront for non-urgent care will not work in practice, says UKIP’s NHS
Champion Suzanne Evans.
Suzann Evans said: “It is beyond unreasonable to expect medics to ignore
their Hippocratic oath and refuse to operate on seriously ill patients. Neither
should hospitals be required to the job of Border Agency
officials.”
"There is a simple, cost-free solution to the problem of health tourism,
and that is to not allow any foreign national into the country unless they have
comprehensive health and travel insurance. Where applicable, visas should not be
granted without proof of such. Anyone else who is unable to present a
certificate of health insurance at their point of entry to the UK, should either
be given the choice to either buy approved health insurance there and then, or
accept they will not be allowed into the
country."
