Oh Dear!

[Sqad]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5002286/Pregnant-British-woman-hospital-nationality-row.html

If this had happened in the U.S of A and a British subject had been refused treatment in a U.S hospital, there would have been an AB outcry fiercely abusing the barbaric American health system.
Now it seem that the UK is finally waking up and "smelling the coffee."

[jourdain2]

I can't see the problem. A foreign name so she has to prove she's entitled. It's normal in France -- most places that I'm aware of. A Health Card with photograph would solve all this; everyone showed that in France before getting any medical care; they also asked about your health insurance.

[wolf63]

I saw this mentioned in the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/20/nhs-ask-patients-bank-statements-check-qualify-free-health-care/

[ummmm]

Why have you brought the US into it? She hasn't been denied treatment. She has until 30th October to produce something like her birth certificate

[mikey4444]

Appalling way to treat a heavily pregnant woman.

[mikey4444]

Just imagine what it would have been like if she was black, British and a Muslim !

[gness]

I don't think it is, Mikey......we can be pregnant and function... ;-)

She's requesting NHS treatment and if my experience is anything to go by your appointment letter for treatment in a Cambridgeshire hospital tells you to bring proof of identity and a utility bill.
Surely she is able to do this?

[albaqwerty]

about time the NHS brought in some sort of 'thing' to stop patient tourism.
How many millions have they lost by treating tourists who then haven't paid up?

However, isn't the first line of the hippocritic oath 'I will do no harm'?
They may well be harming her tho, but as ummm says, she's got til the 30th to prove where she was born.

[Jackdaw33]

Quite. I don't see the problem. A simple birth certificate is all that is required. Stirring for the sake of it.

[ummmm]

Mikey - she received a letter, they didn't turn her away. Why such an OTT reaction?

[ladybirder]

I wish people would stop treating pregnancy as an illness.

[albaqwerty]

ummm, a man in labour usually does go OTT :-D

[gness]

Mikey....other than the first part about attending an appointment without the requested documents that's the letter I received.....

I didn't make a fuss because I'm Irish......I thought.....not before time and took what they asked for to prove I was entitled to treatment there....it wasn't difficult.....x

[naomi24]

//'Am I going to go into labour and then be denied treatment?//

What a drama queen! Just provide what's been asked for. It's not difficult!

[-Talbot-]

Obviously a remainer deliberately stirring things up.

Many of them are drama queens.

[Jackdaw33]

##I didn't make a fuss because I'm Irish.....##

New one on me.

[ToraToraTora]

no one gets turned away, they simply chase up if payment is required and most of the time they don't collect anyway. Miles away from the barbarism of most of the rest of the world.

[Sqad]

"However, isn't the first line of the hippocritic oath 'I will do no harm'?"

alba.....Drs don't take the Hippocratic oath and haven't done for years...decades.

ummmm
"Why have you brought the US into it?"

Because AB has always become indignant over the ways that the U.S wouldn't treat patients without some sort of insurance backup and this case is similar except that it doesn't involve insurance but other methods of identification.
The principle is the same.

[ladybirder]

I hope the rest of the graduates Cambridge is turning out don't think like her. Pity you can't get a degree in common sense.

[webbo3]

The NHS in England is NOT contribution based, it is residency based, every day at the hospital I work in during the emergency clinic on a morning (not life threatening) we as EVERY patient that fills a triage form out the same question, "have you been living in the uk for the last 12 months?", they will still be treated but COULD be charged.

This applies to everyone including British expats who fancy popping over for a bit of free treatment.


Dave.

[-Talbot-]

And the woman in the article seems just as bad...