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In under 2 weeks, Jeremy Hunt's plan to make migrant patients pay upfront for maternity & other NHS secondary care comes into effect. Pls RT
> This follows a government propaganda war about "health tourism" - a disingenuous term to stigmatise migrants who need health treatment >
> including Priscilla, a Nigerian nurse who lost two premature babies while enroute to Chicago via Heathrow. They weaponised her trauma > 
> and now racialised people are being harassed to prove they are "British". @natalie_bloomer wrote this on it today: politics.co.uk/comment-analys…
Hunt knows that this policy is scaring pregnant refugees from having vital pre-natal checks thus endangering them: independent.co.uk/life-style/hea…
It isn't about saving NHS money, NHS stationery budget is greater than supposed "health tourism", this is abolishing universal healthcare
Already thousands of people have been wrongly denied urgent healthcare due to the confusion over these checks: independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Migrants are the testbed for bringing in upfront charging for NHS services. @DHgovuk commissioned @IpsosMORI to assess NHS culture to it
Read report on "cost recovery" in the NHS which includes a reference that the policy will be extended to A&E here: ipsos.com/sites/default/…
