Demands for NHS payments for illegal migrants 'inhumane'

Well, my father died in a stinking side ward in a shithole hospital where the walls had not been properly made good after the previous central heating system had been removed when i worked there thirty five years earlier.

His place in a hospice had been stolen by some Nigerian health tourist who somehow managed to get herself here six months earlier and who the lib dems decreed should have his place paid for from the public purse. A kick in the teeth for a man whose father painted up the nazi bombers and fighters and who started work at 16 and never missed an NI Payment

Bottom line is the NHS is NOT free and it seems Sunak has rigged things so i have to keep paying NI past state retirement age to pay for it

If they’ve PAID NI then fair enough

If they haven’t AND a single British passport holder is in need of the bed, throw them in the street, or ward C5 at UHW which is where they left dad to die in agony.

It's interesting that the Observer should showcase the Zimbabwean. He has evidently been an asylum seeker since 2009 and the Guardian reported in 2021 that he was afraid to return home because his father had been critical of Robert Mugabe.

Mugabe died in 2019.

The manager at Slough General which received every admission from Heathrow stated the NHS position perfectly

The NHS has a duty to stabilise the condition of any patient brought to it from Heathrow. Stabilise means just that, deal with any acute condition to the point they become stable.

At that point there are various paths forward

Those who are entitled by right of residence and contribution to NHS treatment get it, free

Those whose country of residence offers to UK citizens in a similar situation in their country treatment on the same terms as their own citizens also get NHS Treatment such as would be given to UK entitled citizens, free

A small number of countries have an agreement to settle bills for treatment of their citizens in the UK and they too get it, free to them

For the others

Those who have medical insurance will receive NHS treatment to the limit of that insurance

For the rest we accept Mastercard and Visa or duscharge you

I pointed out my father who paid into the system all his life was denied his rightful place in a hospice by a black woman who came here for the health benefits and got them thanks to woke lefty shits in power.

I say if they’re ill in Calais let them claim asylum in Calais and throw themselves at the French Health Service.

And i really don’t give a monkeys about foreigners working here who find themselves not able to claim NHS treatment because there are literally thousands of lawyers mire than happy to help black rubber boat riders fight the UK but not one of those scum had the time of day for my youngest’s GI boyfriend over here on a student visa to study IT while his parents worked on a USAF base.