The Anonymous Widower

London Hospitals Write Off Millions

According to this report from the BBC, the NHS in London is owed £26m by those who because they are not British or EU citizens, don’t get free healthcare.  Of this a large proportion has been written off.

This is not a new phenomenon.

When my mother-in-law had her new heart valve fitted in Barts in the early 1970s, some of the patients there could be be described as health tourists from the USA.  They needed a new heart valve and had come to the UK, where they then got admitted to the hospital through A & E.

I guess the system is still the same.

January 25, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Health | Hospitals, NHS