Health tourists must pay
Sir: The extent of the use made by non-entitled patients from abroad (‘International Health Service’, 6 April) should come as no surprise. This increasing stream of information demonstrating the volume and variation will cause even louder gasps and shock.
The NHS is the standard-bearer of the politics of equality and, like all great collective institutions of the left, however altruistic, is fundamentally corrupt. The corruption is so insidious that only those inside gain insight after the collapse.
In the health service there are often concealed two or more levels of care with varying degrees of competence. When the ‘health tourist’ is forced into paying, they will seek out ‘the best’, which will now be found in the swelling private sector, leaving the NHS depleted, and open to increasing scrutiny by the public. What was once invisible now becomes visible.
Anthony Mitra FRCS
(Hospital consultant, retired)
By email
Wrong about the weather
Sir: Matt Ridley (Diary, 6 April) bemoans the Met Office’s lack of success in longer-term forecasting and puts the blame on a computer algorithm predicated on an assumption of global warming.
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