Northerner
Admin (Retired)
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The NHS is certainly a service under serious pressure – on its finances and on its ability to meet waiting time targets as it grapples with the growing burden of illness caused by an ageing and growing population increasingly displaying lifestyle-related illness.
But is it under pressure because of foreign-born patients with life-threatening illnesses such as TB, cancer and HIV/Aids, as Nigel Farage claims? Do senior doctors see this as a big burden on the NHS, as the Ukip leader says they do?
Firstly, there are no hard patient or cost numbers to back up Farage’s claim that “tuberculosis [and] many, many diseases” are causing “the pressure [being] put on the National Health Service by foreign patients”.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/10/foreign-patients-nhs-nigel-farage
What utter rubbish! 🙄
But is it under pressure because of foreign-born patients with life-threatening illnesses such as TB, cancer and HIV/Aids, as Nigel Farage claims? Do senior doctors see this as a big burden on the NHS, as the Ukip leader says they do?
Firstly, there are no hard patient or cost numbers to back up Farage’s claim that “tuberculosis [and] many, many diseases” are causing “the pressure [being] put on the National Health Service by foreign patients”.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/10/foreign-patients-nhs-nigel-farage
What utter rubbish! 🙄