Health authorities in Texas issued a public warning about a series of meningitis cases tied to surgeries in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. One of the five known cases has resulted in a fatality.
The British government has quietly dropped plans to tackle abuse of the country’s National Health Service (NHS) by foreigners not entitled to free care after pressure from left-liberal activists, according to reports.
An illegal immigrant from Albania who used a fake ID to get a kidney transplant, costing the National Health Service (NHS) more than £72,000, has been imprisoned.
A foreign citizen from outside of the European Union has left a British hospital with a staggering half-million-pound bill for treatment received last year, reports the Daily Mail. Coming among the £2 billion a year treatment given to non-EU resident foreigners,
The NHS is still falling woefully short of collecting payments due from foreigners using its services, a new report has revealed. The figures have prompted the government to draw up plans for debt collector ‘hit squads’ to visit NHS Trusts which consistently fail to recover costs.
Agents in Nigeria have been offering pregnant women paid assistance to have their babies for free on the NHS, a hospital manager has claimed, prompting the London hospital she works for to begin asking pregnant women to show their passports
British taxpayers have been left to foot a £181,000 bill run up on the National Health Service (NHS) by an illegal immigrant, as health bosses are not bothering to chase up payments for foreign nationals. Overall, millions are being lost
Leaving the European Union (EU) could save the NHS, a leading doctor has said, as Britain would make a net saving of £8 billion a year by withdrawing from the bloc – money which could be used to close the
UKIP MP Douglas Carswell has backtracked after initially supporting party leader Nigel Farage over his comments on HIV-positive migrants and health tourism, according to City AM. Speaking in the leaders’ debate during the election campaign, UKIP’s leader brought up the
A mixed-race HIV positive Londoner has written a letter of support to Nigel Farage following the Ukip leader’s remarks on HIV health tourism. The anonymous author, who describes himself as a “victim of HIV immigration”, details how his health is being put
Finally, in this dullest and most dishonest of general elections, I’ve spotted a clear campaign winner. It’s the Get UKIP party. Possibly Get UKIP’s finest hour so far was during and after the Leaders’ Debate in which Nigel Farage pointed
The government has introduced new guidelines to clamp down on health tourism just days after UKIP leader Nigel Farage was slammed by his political opponents for raising the subject. The new rules advise hospitals that they have a “legal obligation”
General Practitioners will be asked to check whether patients are eligible for free NHS care in a new pilot scheme to be rolled out in ten areas with high populations of EU migrants. According to GP magazine Pulse, surgeries will
