The health tourist 'hit and runners' who rip you off... with £24million in unpaid NHS bills as abuse of free care by non-EU patients doubles in just one year | Mail Online

Here's the headlines from the article:

'Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt promises crack down after Mail On Sunday investigation

For every £100 spent by the NHS on health tourists only £23 has been paid back
One individual cost the NHS £217,000 but not a penny has been repaid'

This is a story that has been reported over and over again over the last 15 years. I have absolutely no faith in the latest crackdown for two reasons: first because there are too many people in the NHS who feel that it is a good thing to spend money on health care for non British people, it's a similar mindset to that of the senior civil servant that I quoted a while back, these people don't care about value for money for the British taxpayer, they have a higher calling. The second reason is as quoted in the Mail: 'Fear of being labelled racist means NHS staff are reluctant to confront health tourists, according to a whistleblower.' The left's deployment of the epitaph 'racist' at anybody that crosses them is highly effective as in a non religious Britain, racism is one of the few sins. People's careers and lives have been ruined for being called a racist, so it takes a brave person to risk it.


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Something does not add up

The BBC report on the rise in new HIV infections thus:

'A doubling of new HIV infections in the UK in the past decade is leading experts to tell GPs to offer testing to all adult male patients in some areas.

Health Protection Agency data shows new UK-acquired cases rose from just under 2,000 in 2001 to nearly 3,800 in 2010.

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In 2009, more than 2,000 black Africans were diagnosed with an HIV infection; one-third of all new diagnoses in the UK.'

I know that the figures in the first section are for 2010 and the second for 2009 but if 2,000 is a third of new infections in 2009 then how can total new infections in 2010 not be around 6,000 but 3,800? Something is not quite right here. Does anyone at the BBC check figures or are they all innumerate arts and social 'sciences' graduates?


As an aside, this rise in HIV amongst African men is something that was reported quite some time ago as HIV infected Africans along with tuberculosis infected East Europeans have been coming to the UK for the NHS's famed free at the point of use treatment. The UK is a rich country, we can afford it - or so we were told; can we?