The Health Service

For once I have read some good news but as always there are dissenters, the health service have decided to set up a trial with 10 GP surgeries around the country, all they need to do is to ensure immigrants have a European health card before treatment is given, and the details of these people be added to a data base so that the NHS can charge the country of origin can be sent the bill for any treatment they receive while in the UK, at the moment the service looses at least £400 million a year maybe far more because they do not recover the cost of treatment that these patients receive, we as a country pay other countries around £175 million a year to other EU countries for UK patients needing care, they pay us in return £17.5 million very much lob sided, to me that is a really good idea but as always there has to be someone who tries to shoot this down, a certain doctor says that this makes GP's a grass reporting their possible refusal of health services, he complains that they do not have the money to use on such a possible registrar, well I have some news for him, you just might have more money to look after patients if you weeded out these heath tourists at the very beginning ensuring we can get the money back from the country who is responsible for their care we as a country can't keep paying for everyone who decides that we are a soft touch, we have to snap down on this loss of cash now and I am afraid that GP's will have to grin and bear it!!!!.