Immigrants should also be concerned.
The Guardian reports that an asylum seeker died during treatment and investigation at the hands of the NHS.
The inference is that he died as a result of being given poor care because he was an illegal immigrant.
Of course, we all know better. He died for exactly the same reason that all the other patients die: the NHS is falling apart.
Sadly, his story will sound all to familiar to any GP.
The only good news is that the NHS is an equal opportunities service - it kills everyone, regardless of race, gender, or creed.
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The yearly cost of treating immigrants on the NHS (who are not entitled to care) is estimated to be in the region of £62million.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article2374072.ece
In 2002 84,130 asylum applications were made, but only 10% granted.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/329/7461/346
It's true that there are too many patients who have contributed (financially) all their lives to but have then been badly let down by the NHS.
In this case the hospital claim they did not deny access to treatment, but a further problem of course, is that nobody believes a word they say - clearly hospitals don't do irony when they refer to themselves as "Trusts".
Dr Rant can i just point out that the article does state ~" he was treated several times" and that it appears a date for investigation had be set.
IF he died before he could be investigated then it may have been bad timing and waiting lists more that being buggered about.
Yes, he was 'treated' several times, and a date was set for investigation.
This is a pattern that GPs are seeing all over the UK.
In the past (when Dr Rant was a junior doctor), someone who was really sick was admitted and they were rarely discharged unless a diagnosis had ben made.
However, today there are no beds and hospitals are paid/judged on how quickly they can complete an 'episode of care'. The measure is based on discharging patients. It does not matter if that patient is promptly re-admitted or even dies from lack of proper care, so long as they are discharged.
So, a patient goes in and comes back out without a diagnosis and without proper care - often with a date to come back for 'investigations' months later.
I had one patient I had to admit five times over a period of two months because of this shuffle. They arrested and died on their fifth admission (after arguing for hours about how 'innapropriate' the admission was first!).
Still, it looks good on paper. Look how much we care! We admitted them 'several times'.
Shame they seldom think to actually, you know, diagnose and treat on any of those admissions.
It's all part of The Big Con. Just like all those extra nurses and doctors (you know, the ones they count as 'new' every time they change posts or move to another hospital/area/ward/come back from days off). Oh, and the PFI/PPP money scam. And the constant cuts that never, ever affect patient care.
Bunch of lying fucking tossfaced evil cuntesticled fucks.....
I agree with Dr Rant on the 'equal opportunities bit
"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others."
The NHS proved Orwell wrong ... :-)
'A young asylum seeker with a heart condition died as doctors tried to establish whether he was entitled to free treatment on the NHS, it emerged today.'
Why did the newspapers write '...doctors tried to establish...'? Yes it was those pesky doctors again. I wasn't there but I'm fairly sure there weren't a load of SHOs ringing around trying to establish his entitlement. Or do they think he was lying there in VF arrest while the juniors were on the phone to the immigration office? We don't understand this bollocks, don't really care much about it either, would have cracked on and left such nonsense to the management types. The newspaper writes like it still thinks drs are in charge of what goes on in hospitals on some way...
Dr Rant says - 'however there are no beds'.
Well, there are beds but nearly 75% less than compared to when the NHS began (over 400,000 beds in 1948, but only 110,000, or so, now).
We don't need them - apparently things are to be taken care of in the 'community' ?
Obviously, since Noctors are doing all the medical work now, Doctors naturally have to be re-deployed into Doc-ministration.
So where did the administrative bureaucrats go? Well, with all the MRSA and C~ Difficile it's obvious - They're hiding in yellow t-shirts making a fuck up of deep-cleaning the ward.
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