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I hear on the radio the other day that non-English speaking patients attending the A&E Department of a certain hospital were being given priority and taken to the front of the queue. The reason for this is that the trust concerned were employing a translator and they could only afford to have them there for a certain number of hours hence the non-english speakers were seen first. Please someone tell me how on earth that can be right.Also about 8 months ago I fell and disocated my elbow (ouch) and whilst waiting for about 5 hours in casualty to be seen I witnessed several Eastern European families coming into the casualty dept simply 'cause they didn't know how to register with a GP. I cannot imagine how frustrating the staff must find this as it all takes up valuable time.
The thing is the immigrants here are going to take advantage of what they can get if it is offered to them on a plate (lets face it who wouldn't?) and so the real issue is that we have to tighten up the entry requirements before this country gets into even more trouble but it seems to me that the majority of govenment ministers are to worried about what the rest of Europe will say if they ever dared get a bit more stringent!
Mandy x
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