'I volunteer as a GP in Doctors of the World’s clinic. There, I met Sara. 'When I first saw her, I thought she was cuddling a baby under her cardigan and that she had brought her sick child to see us. I was terribly wrong.'
Questions about immigration status are now routine in registering at a GP, attending A&E or hospital appointments
, she had waited as long as she could before asking anyone about the lump in her breast. Sara had waited so long that now her lump was weeping, infected and enormous. The current charging regime means that some people will be asked to pay upfront, before receiving care. While in urgent cases this should not happen, due to pressures on hospitals, mistakes are being made and. Even if they do receive care, they can be chased to pay for the debt, which can amount to tens of thousands of pounds.
And now, despite calls from all angles of society to scrap the charging regime it’s looking increasingly likely that EU citizens are going to face problems accessing healthcare after Brexit.As part of the government’s preparations for a no-deal Brexit, hospitals appear to have been informed that, after exit day, EU citizens must pass an ‘ordinarily resident’ test to be entitled to free NHS care, and providers should ‘follow existing guidance on upfront charging’.
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