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To defend the NHS, stop health tourism

We don't have the capacity to fund a worldwide health service – pretending otherwise just imposes a needless burden on both the NHS and the taxpayer

15 August 2015

9:00 AM

15 August 2015

9:00 AM

Speaking after the Stafford hospital scandal in 2010, the then newly appointed Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, grandly announced plans for a charter to support whistleblowers. The government, he said, would ‘create an expectation that NHS staff will raise concerns about safety, malpractice and wrongdoing as early as possible’.

We now know just how that fine pledge worked out.

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