UK Government to deny NHS healthcare to asylum seekers
LABOUR GOVERNMENT plans to deny asylum seekers access to healthcare are in disarray as almost the entire health profession signal their opposition.
At risk: asylum seekers to be denied NHS treatmentBlink has discovered that on the final day of the Department of Health consultation a host of medical bodies have come out against the plans which many believe will turn NHS staff into ‘immigration officers.’
Opposition includes Royal College of General Practitioners, the Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association, and the Medical Practitioners Union.
Campaigners such as the Refugee Council, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and the African HIV Policy Network are also fighting the plans.
The government wants to charge asylum seekers for using the NHS but critics fear this will put refugees lives at risk, many of whom are barely surviving and who cannot afford medical bills running into thousands of pounds.
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