Illegal Immigrants Receive Priority NHS Treatment in 15 Minutes Despite Long Queues for Brits
Illegal immigrant are among those receiving priority NHS treatment in as little as 15 minutes despite long queues for Brits under a policy that critics say “sums up broken Britain”. The Telegraph has more.
It’s Thursday evening, just before 10pm, and the A&E at University College Hospital in central London is heaving.
All the seats are taken, leaving dozens of patients standing or perched on a ledge next to the window, visible to passers-by. There’s already a queue of around 70 patients, and it’s only likely to get longer as the night goes on.
It’s not an unusual sight in Britain. Official NHS figures reveal at least one in four people had to wait more than four hours to be seen in A&E in November. More than 45,000 patients were delayed longer than 12 hours.
Yet here at UCLH, there is one way you can get seen earlier. Indeed, for certain members of society, you can get assessed in just 15 minutes.
That privilege goes to undocumented migrants, as well as the homeless and drug addicts, according to its website. Under a scheme called 987 Inclusion Health, patients within those categories needing an “urgent” assessment can ask for an appointment at A&E and be bumped up the queue on arrival. After initial tests, they are taken directly to a consultant for a “more thorough evaluation”.
The initiative is aimed at patients who “struggle to attend A&E due to the long delays waiting to be seen”. And it is just one of several schemes set up across the U.K. focusing specifically on helping migrants arriving here to get better access to healthcare. Yet, at a time when the NHS is on its knees, dealing with underfunding and chronic staff shortages, critics have questioned whether it is fair that those without a right to live here have what appears to be a ‘priority’ service in healthcare.
“This sums up broken Britain,” one said. Another accused the NHS of prioritising diversity over healthcare.
In south London, for example, special “walk-in services” at community day centres are on offer for refused asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. Here, they can receive a full health assessment, treatment of minor illnesses, and referrals to specialist services. In contrast, 15% of locals had to wait at least a week before seeing a doctor in November.
In Stoke-on-Trent, an NHS team is on hand to “help failed asylum seekers, many of whom are homeless and destitute with no recourse to public funds”, access a GP and dentist. A survey in 2022 found 73% of people in the city struggled to see an NHS dentist.
“It is outrageous that those here illegally are prioritised over British taxpayers, and it reinforces, once again, the concern that the NHS has become an international service, not a national health service,” says Steve Barclay, the former Health Secretary. “There should not be preferential treatment for those here illegally at our expense, and I think the public will be outraged to discover that’s the case. NHS England should give clear answers as to why.”
Somebody needs to tell “Steve Barclay, the former Health Secretary” that this isn’t a new policy. It was happening under the Tories and they had 14 years in charge to put it right. Why didn’t he ban the practice when he was Health Secretary, rather than just complaining that it’s “outrageous” now he’s in opposition?
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Excellent final paragraph commentary by Will Jones about the egregious hypocrisy of the former Health Secretary.
As the article states, there have been many different ways of describing the transformation of the National Health Service into the Global Free Stuff service, but here is a simple one:
This is TREASON.
As Tyrbiter says below I wouldn’t be certain that it was a decision made by ministers, or if they were even aware…
Let’s not forget NCHI’s came from the college of policing not ministers.
The NHS already has the right to check for eligibility for treatment but THEY have made clear THEY don’t want to do so and won’t…
I’m as happy to blame politicians as anyone else but as shown at the Home Office it isn’t always the politicians making the decisions/causing the problem
Ministers must take responsibility. If they allow their departments or quangos they sponsor to get out of line they must be condemned for it.
The Tories try to excuse their performance in such a wide front because they know they supervised 14 years of disaster. Voters have tumbled them. Many of their former voters have rumbled them.
the scale of what they did or permitted was do great it is completely reasonable to conclude they wanted it done. How many more years did they need to start doing what they promised and what the public clearly wanted.
In every front they were nothing more than the turquoise branch of Uniparty: immigration, tax, spending, incompetence, regulations, authoritarianism, depletion of the armed forces, wokery in public sector including the police and general failure.
I won’t disagree they need to be accountable but the idea one person (health secretary) knows what’s going on in and can control the NHS is for the birds.
In a former life I was a night manager for a national supermarket. My store manager had very little knowledge of what went on overnight other than what I told him. There was a degree of trust as I was good at my job and been there a long time.
However when one person doesn’t know what’s happening in a shop how do we expect someone (usually without experience of running a large business, even those are a fraction of the size of the NHs) to run the NHS?
You mean to say Tory Ministers didn’t think to ask about what their staff were doing, enquire into MSM and alternative media stories, check that manifesto policies were being delivered, check the political views and activities of quango appointees.
This is why the Uniparty are so keen to set up quangos such as the College of Policing – to outsource decisions which they are paid to make and to dodge responsibility when said quangos make unpopular decisions. Let’s face it, many politicians use quangos to establish ideological projects which they can then turn around and say, ‘Nuffink to do with me, gov.’ That’s why Stonewall has been enabled to run rampant through our institutions.
I agree it’s good for them to avoid the responsibility but equally I wonder if it’s passing the buck because they know they can’t do it? I feel the biggest issue with our politicians is the pay. Despite what many people think £80 odd thousand isn’t much for a job in London, especially one like an MP. Where I work in south Lincolnshire the average is about £53k and we just drive trucks! Not that I want to but I wouldn’t dream of being an MP for that… When I used to listen to LBC people would ring and say that they did a job and thought they could help and bring some relevant skills or expertise but weren’t willing to pause (and possibly lose if out more than a few years) their career. Probably our best MP is Rupert Lowe and the key thing about him as well as his experience is he wants to do it. He isn’t worried about upsetting people and losing his seat as he’s made his money (donates his salary to charity every month) and wants to make a difference. Personally I’d increase MP pay significantly, along with reducing the number to try and… Read more »
Consider supply and demand. There are many competent honest people who would do the MP role for £80k odd plus great pension plus no mandatory hours plus £lots of staff funding.
It is not a job but a role.
IMHO most MOs and their “researchers” (aka PR and correspondence readers) would not get a job in the private sector.
I wonder how former Tory MPs are getting on with job hunting.
100%.
Sorry but I don’t want “competent” running the country.
I want “the best”. However I accept we can’t pay that so I’ll settle for “good,” but when it comes to running the country “competent” is not enough.
I agree most of them aren’t very good, that’s my whole point…
£80k on a 3-5 year renewable contract, where the renewal will most likely have nothing to do with your personal performance isn’t much at all. Hence the mess we’re in
MP and Lord , jobs that need no qualifications
Don’t forget the expenses they help themselves to.
Most MP’s are clearing £250k pa. It is grotesque to say they are underpaid and for that we get some of the worst moral dross this country has to offer, people with no morals, principles, conscience or even manners in many cases. Bigger salaries for better? What a joke.
Maybe the PM, cabinet and selected big names, but the average MP isn’t…
I assume you’re also throwing the expenses in? and while I didn’t say it I’d reform those. Standard HMRC allowances only on production of receipts.
I’d buy a couple of tower blocks (huge missed opportunity with the Olympic village) and they’d be for the use of non London MPs. No hotels, all inner London MPs to return home each day.
The whole expenses scandal came about because it was accepted pay was too low but it was politically impossible to raise it. So it was “put it on expenses, nudge nudge, wink wink”
Have you ever heard the saying “you get what you pay for”? I think it sums our political class up completely
Sounds like the policy is something cooked up by NHS and civil serpents that was quietly kept out of the sight of ministers as much as possible.
Yes, “the conservatives”, the other half of the Uniparty. Fool me once, shame on me….
If they genuinely want to stop the boats they will stop the incentives. Until they do that all their talk is just gaslighting.
Labour would never leave the ECHR. They would deploy a scorched earth policy before leaving that organisation, like Hitler ordering Albert Speer to destroy everything, even for the German people to leave the victors with nothing.
Too many lawyers in parliament to leave ECHR. It’s the gift that keeps giving.
This is not really all that extraordinary, because, after all, why would our current rulers prioritise the people they hate and despise and who they intend to replace: us?
It’s time for revolution.
As we are constantly told that most of these new arrivals are doctors, you think they’d be in a position to look after themselves.
Jus’ sayin’.
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I think a lot of younger people have a great deal of sympathy for immigrants and refugees. Especially after 2008 when the money supply dried up and an ongoing relentless consolidation of power began in earnest. The idea of ever owning a house disappeared, any sense of being a stakeholder. And so they feel that they are closer in spirit to the wretched of the earth than they are their own countrymen who betrayed their future.
Only because they do not comprehend the sheer scale of numbers involved.
That’s true if things get overwhelmed then they are overwhelmed for everyone.
Why didn’t Steve Barclay do something about this when he was Health Secretary? Because this is the real cold face of the Uniparty at work. Our Foreign Aid would be better spent equipping a special health task force to go to third world countries and help out there. They can take our Uniparty politicians with them. It might make said politicians appreciate just what our people have built up in the UK. It might make them actually value our own citizens a bit. About time we had robust treason laws. Our country would be better off if UParty politicians were incarcerated for some time.
I wonder, can we do citizen’s arrests for some of our more treasonous politicians and some members of the elite trash class for their clear abuse of UK citizens?
And this from Rupert Lowe’s Twitter;
“This is simply staggering. I have verified the source of this information as reliable, from a GP practice in London.
On a daily average at this practice…
– Just 8% of appointments are used by British citizens.
– 51% of patients require an interpreter (at the taxpayer’s expense), also in effect taking a double appointment.
– 72% of all sick notes are issued to patients who do not speak English.
92% of appointments at this practice being taken by foreign nationals – over half requiring interpretation.
This is not what the NHS was designed for, this is not what we pay our taxes for.
Uncontrolled mass immigration has failed the British people.”
Interpreters are an expensive game and they know they are in short supply with high demand so you can see where that leads. Some of them are excellent and professional, others are pure scumbags. I have lived abroad I would never in a million years expect the country I lived in to provide an interpreter. It is my job to learn their language. If it isn’t good enough then that is on me I will learn quickly enough in a serious situation. You don’t just turn up on foreign shores and expect them to provide you with language services.
You are crazy providing interpreters it is a bottomless pit.
One should never take counsel of one’s fears or make things more fearful than they are. Can you not see that all over the world they are gearing up for a dark reset where you will no longer be alive. You will be replaced by an individual who has far lower expecations. Can you not see that this is in its final phase with the big wipeout soon to come. The UFOs or drones and where they are congregating. You as in the Anglo-American masses are the bullseye of this target. All of those disappeared children will replace your children.
A 2min look at Keir Starmer’s career as a Human Rights lawyer. I’ve often wondered this: why are human rights lawyers always so preoccupied with affording foreign criminals, such as sex offenders, murderers and terrorists, rights whilst the human rights of the victims get completely overlooked? I guess we now know why we didn’t see hide nor hair of them when our rights were being violated during the Scamdemic years. They’re all corrupt AF and neither use nor ornament ( unless you’re a low-life crim );
https://x.com/Wommando/status/1875545922031251558
As with GP surgeries and dentists it should be working taxpayer’s who get priority. The people mentioned have all the time to wait as they do nothing for this country.
There should be a government ticker running constantly to show how much of our tax is being spent on people both here and abroad who have not contributed a penny to our nation.
The ability of Senior Ministers to take the Paula Vennells defence, “it’s not my fault, noone told me” doesn’t wash. If its your responsibility, then its down to you. To quote Ronald Reagan, “Trust but verify”