Dick Dasterdly

http://www.healthcare-today.co.uk/ne...illions/22866/

Interesting programme last night about how the NHS is being exploited.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...lth%2BReporter

Why we are such an easy target.

Domino

I suppose its all because the NHS is such a miserly payer that these people have to resort to bribery and corruption to make ends meet.


fairly sure it has been going on for quite some time, ISTR the GP/Practice receive an allowance for all those on their books

funny that the indication is that it is predominately those from the Indian sub-continent. Only a few days ago documentary on Spanish television covering the Indian Independence saying that the Indians wanted independence from Britain, to stand on their own two feet and make their way in the world.
So is it them or us that can't let go ?
were we so bad for India ?
have we not repaid whatever they think we owe them many times over ?
they even see much street cred in having a British passport, the passport to the world !
and they seem to think our "aid" £millions is just a drop in the bucket and not needed !

Rosemary

An awful lot of industry has moved to India from the UK. Many, many jobs in the UK lost because the products could be made in India cheaper due to labour costs.

Rosemary

Domino

not just industry, India has the largest complex of call centres providing telephone "support" to many organisations

NTL's Indian call centre is stuffed full of cue cards, they can only go thru the card from start to finish without understanding what they have told you, of course accompanied by the 2-3 secs time delay + another 2-3 secs "thinking time"

talking to a friend at the weekend, he says his company offshored some of their operations but having spent the last 6m UK time ensuring the databases were up to date they now find they drift daily. On complaining a guy in India said "that isnt my job, stop harrassing me, I am reporting you to my manager". Wonder where he got that from

Pocaloca

Costa del Sol to become leading health destination

“We are sitting on an untapped goldmine and we don’t even realise it,” said foundation founder Miguel Such. “None of us are motivated by money. We are embarking on this project to bring favour to Malaga."

Yeah right ...

steviedeluxe

People have talked about doing this for many years. It's surprising that it's taken a major recession to get the relevant people interested in doing this - although I suppose if they were doing ok before they didn't see the need.

jackytoo

Marbella clinic has been doing it for years. My Daughter had a new nose there about 12 years ago and there were people who had flown in from the UK and Germany for just a few days. May have flopped a bit though when the Nigerian(?) Presidents wife died having liposuction there Many are travelling to Poland to have operations too.

bobd22

I know it's the UK but in the papers today saying UK Health Authoritys have to treat all Foreigners no matter where from and even register them !!!!!!! It's a Human Right under the Act???

agoreira

Yes, I did read it, we must be mad! I expect the rest of the EU will soon be following suit.

Pocaloca

You're a bit out of date, Spain is going in the other direction ...

The PP passed a law recently denying medical treatment to unregistered immigrants. They will fine doctors who disobey the law and many doctors are refusing to comply. Seven autonomous communities including Andalucia are defying the law.

This includes unregistered British immigrants too, of course ... as some of you may have already discovered!

Immigrants in Spain lose right to public health care