Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

'NHS spent £181,000 treating just one illegal immigrant'

Leading cancer specialist claims migrants are putting "unsustainable" strain on NHS



By Telegraph reporters

4:12AM GMT 21 Mar 2016





A hospital spent £181,000 treating a single illegal immigrant, it was reported on Sunday night.


Details of the patient’s bill emerged amid claims that the NHS was failing to collect millions of pounds from foreign nationals using its services.


And a leading cancer specialist said no healthcare system could cope with the strain the NHS was put under by treating migrants, saying it was "absolutely unsustainable".


Portsmouth Hospitals Trust spent £181,000 treating just one illegal immigrant, according to The Sun.


Another patient, from Ghana, was reported to have been deported before a £42,000 bill was paid, leaving East and North Hertfordshire Trust to foot the bill.


It was claimed the Guy’s and St Thomas’s Trust in London wrote off £5.1 million treating patients from overseas, and unpaid bills cost Barts Health Trust £268,000.

Professor Angus Dalgleish, of St George’s, University of London, who stood in last year's General Election for the UK Independence Party, told The Sun: "What is the point of making all these terrible cuts to services when you’re not chasing the money you’re owed?"


"I know of very ill individuals who have arrived for treatment from other countries and gone straight into intensive care costing thousands of pounds a day. When I started in cancer treatment a course of drugs cost around £1,000. Now it’s £60,000 to £100,000.

"The cost is huge. No other healthcare system in the world could cope with it and the abuse of this system must be stopped."

In one notorious case, Homerton University Hospital, in east London, failed to chase up a bill of £145,000 it should have charged to a Nigerian woman who had quintuplets after travelling to Britain.

Bimbo Ayelabola, 37, underwent a complex caesarean section in 2011 but did not pay any of the cost of the operation and neo-natal care for her five babies.

The case followed claims by NHS whistleblowers that managers were instructing them to turn a blind eye to health tourists because it was "too much trouble" to chase them for money.

According to NHS estimates, only about 16 per cent of the cost of treating foreigners who travel to Britain to receive treatment is ever recouped

Oh dear, what a mess.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/12199765/Its-no-wonder-real-Tories-are-tiring-of-David-Cameron-and-George-Osborne.html

As big as your head dear Freda .

Fred will foot the bill Chris ,he would want all illegal immigrants treated whatever the cost .

Makes me sick just goes on and on .

stan you are like the bottom of a babies pram all piss and broken biscuits
and in your case shit has well

TANK why are you going so easy on Stan ? your usually angry.

Don't be hard on Stan. All his mates are leaving.
BURNLEY has the largest proportion of empty homes in the country, new figures have revealed. It used to have a population of 80,000 - 90,000 but it is about 20,000 less now.

Crackpot.

Whats the saying , I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK !!

I can understand why some want:

Crackpot.

Vicky,

I think you are correct!

VIC is that pictures Freds putting up ?

the problem with the referendum result, whichever way it goes, is that the long-term effects are all guesswork
there are good arguments and credible heavy hitters on both sides

Move directly to the referendum thread .

Don't pass GO.

I think he's talking to himself jimmy .