'Migrants are pushing NHS to breaking point': Top cancer doctor warns health tourists are bleeding hospitals dry with demand for treatment
Professor Angus Dalgleish (pictured), the principal of the London
based Cancer Vaccine Institute, says the NHS is being put under 'an
intolerable strain' by the number of migrants seeking care.
The NHS has been left 'on its knees' by uncontrolled migration from the EU, a leading cancer expert will warn tomorrow.
Professor
Angus Dalgleish, the principal of the Cancer Vaccine Institute, says
the NHS is being bled dry of resources by health tourists denied care at
home.
Cancer treatment can cost £200,000 and, under Brussels rules, Britain has to offer it to all EU nationals.
Professor Angus Dalgleish, the
principal of the Cancer Vaccine Institute, says the NHS is being bled
dry of resources by health tourists denied care at home. Cancer
treatment can cost £200,000 and, under Brussels rules, Britain has to
offer it to all EU nationals
Professor
Dalgleish says this partly explains the NHS's £3billion deficit. He
will also claim the Government has hindered progress into key disease
areas 'by blindly adhering to EU directives'.
'Our
membership of the EU is putting an intolerable strain on our NHS,'
Professor Dalgleish, a melanoma expert of global renown, will tell a
conference.
'The
NHS is on its knees and could collapse completely. NHS Trusts were not
prepared for the millions of EU migrants who have poured into Britain
because the Government estimate was nowhere near the reality.
'GP
services are collapsing under the huge number of people they are having
to treat and this has led to less than 20 per cent of students wanting
to become GPs.
'Britain
is attracting thousands of health tourists from across the EU who
cannot get certain drugs or treatments in their home country so come to
Britain and demand them as EU citizens.
'Cancer
treatment can cost £200,000 a year per patient and while we remain in
the EU, Britain has to offer treatment for any EU citizen who comes here
so as to not discriminate.
Professor Dalgleish says migrant
numbers partly explains the NHS's £3billion deficit. He will also claim
the Government has hindered progress into key disease areas 'by blindly
adhering to EU directives'
'The Health Service is being bled dry – this is why our NHS faces a £3 billion deficit.'
Professor
Dalgleish, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, also claims
that EU rules and regulations are holding back cancer trials which could
discover new cures or treatments. He will say: 'The introduction of the
EU clinical trials directive meant academic led studies carried out in
Britain became illegal if not performed to new EU standards. By blindly
adhering to EU directives, the British Government has hindered crucial
medical research in key disease areas.
'The unfathomable amount of EU regulation and bureaucracy has led to a third less clinical studies taking place in Britain.
'Britain was world leading in these studies but because of the EU, we now lag behind the United States.'
Professor
Dalgleish is also expected to make a withering attack on the EU working
time directive – which the Prime Minister opted not to challenge in his
referendum negotiations with Brussels.
He will say: 'This has destroyed the ability of the NHS to deliver service and training.
'Training
has been hit so hard that standards have slipped to worrying levels.
Surgeons are not gaining the same experience a registrar previously had
when appointed to consultant positions.
'Other
EU countries were creative in incorporating the working time directive
to ensure specialists could get the 60 hours a week experience needed
but the British Government adopted the directive without thinking
through the ramifications.
'As a result, training has been hit so hard that standards have dropped and patient care has suffered.'
Professor
Dalgleish is due to deliver his speech at a conference titled The Good
Life After Brexit, which has a theme that Britain will be safer leaving
the EU.
He
will share a platform with former Tory ministers Liam Fox, David Davis
and John Redwood, Labour MP Graham Stringer, Ukip leader Nigel Farage
and the DUP's Ian Paisley Jr.
The conference has been organised by David Campbell Bannerman MEP, co-chairman of Conservatives For Britain.
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