Writing in the Sun Newspaper Nicholas Soames and Frank Field, Co-chairmen of the Cross-Party Group on Balanced Migration, call on the Government to rethink its policy on international access to NHS Primary Care...

If you thought that the NHS stood for National Health Service, think again. Since last July it has become the International Health Service — but paid for, of course, out of your taxes.

That was when the Government sneaked out new instructions to family doctors with no public announcement and certainly no debate.

Doctors must now accept on their lists any foreign visitor who is here for more than 24 hours. They must also accept any illegal immigrant who cares to apply.

It is hard to think of a more open invitation to health tourists both from developing countries and from rich countries like the United States where health care is private and very expensive.

It is astonishing that the Government should have agreed to this when the NHS is struggling. It must be cancelled now.

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