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Government claims that non-residents are costing the NHS as much as £2 billion a year were rubbished yesterday by doctors and opposition leaders.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt seized on the headline-grabbing report, released on the same day as the Con-Dem Immigration Bill had its first reading in Parliament, to claim that the NHS could legally be able to claw back at least £500 million of that amount from short-term migrants and foreign visitors who use the service.
The report estimates that so-called "health tourists" - people who travel to Britain specifically to use its health service - could cost as little as £10m.
Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue