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Charging foreigners ?200 to access the NHS will "open the floodgates" to criminal gangs who bring heavily pregnant women from Africa to give birth in Britain, leading doctors have warned.
They said that pregnant women are routinely flown from Africa to give birth on the NHS, often to more than one child, in a practise so common it has become known in hospitals as the "Lagos shuttle".
The doctors said the lack of restrictions on IVF treatment abroad mean many of the women are give birth to twins or triplets, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds to the NHS each time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/n...harge-opens-floodgates-to-criminal-gangs.html
Like most of the current government's policies, it seems they haven't quite thought things through
They said that pregnant women are routinely flown from Africa to give birth on the NHS, often to more than one child, in a practise so common it has become known in hospitals as the "Lagos shuttle".
The doctors said the lack of restrictions on IVF treatment abroad mean many of the women are give birth to twins or triplets, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds to the NHS each time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/n...harge-opens-floodgates-to-criminal-gangs.html
Like most of the current government's policies, it seems they haven't quite thought things through