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Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers will be able to obtain free health care

July 23rd, 2009 · Post your comment (No Comments)

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Telegraph: The decision was taken to allow treatment for some asylum seekers after doctors gave warning that they would not act as immigration officers by demanding to check passports before providing care.

An estimated 450,000 failed asylum seekers in Britain are currently denied free treatment on the NHS.

However, a joint review of the policy by the Department of Health and the Home Office ruled that up to 20,000 would now be allowed free health care, including children and those who would “otherwise be destitute”, or could not return home “through no fault of their own”.

With health charities claiming that the NHS faced the most challenging financial period in its 60-year history, ministers were last night accused of “jamming the door open for illegal immigrants”.

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