Doctors Refuse to aid detection of illegals and health tourists

[Arthur Little]

BMA Press Release

"Dr Vautrey added that he had excellent practice staff but they could not be expected to check patients’ visa documentation at reception"

Quite rightly so!

Why the not ???

Receptionists at GPs' *surgeries are *there to check-in patient appointments ... they're NOT doctors. NOR are they employed
to decide who NEEDS - and/or is entitled to receive treatment and who DOESN'T or ISN'T - ... these are solely doctors' responsibilities.

Doctors are - or OUGHT to be - caring professionals ... whose duty it is, to FIRST AND FOREMOST attend the sick and infirm, treating **ALL patients equally in accordance with their needs
... regardless of **their [the patients] ethnic origins/immigration status.

Moreover, the ''Hippocratic Oath' - which all new entrants to the profession have to sign before practising medicine - decrees it is incumbent upon medically~qualified Healthcare staff at ALL levels to ensure that patient confidentiality is FULLY maintained at ALL times throughout patient/doctor consultations. Meaning, in turn, that the latters' Contracts of Employment do NOT, ANYWHERE, contain a clause requiring them to also act as government spies!!