Health secretary wants ‘tough clampdown’ on patients from outside the European Economic Area that would save the NHS £500m a year The government is under fire from doctors’ leaders and unions over controversial unique plans to charge migrants and other foreign visitors from outside Europe for emergency treatment on the NHS. In a lunge that he said would save taxpayers £500m a year by 2018,the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, or revealed he was ordering a tough clampdown” that would mean charging people from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) for emergency and primary care,including having broken bones reset, pre-admission stays in intensive care, and rides in ambulances.
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Source: theguardian.com