The government is considering making hospitals check all patients passport and papers before giving them healthcare, MPs were told yesterday.
Jeremy Hunt - rather than working to meet the real challenges of the NHS - is playing the politics of distraction during Autumn Statement week. Hunt’s – and Theresa May’s – preferred side show is tough talk about how they are “determined to stamp out abuse of the system”. Hunt’s most senior civil servant, Chris Wormald, suggested this week that every citizen in England would have to show his or her identity to receive health care, including for emergency and primary care, having broken bones reset, pre-admission stays in intensive care, and rides in ambulances.
