I know you prefer simple answers and struggle with complexity but surely you must realise the current problems have multiple causes?
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They do. I discuss them most days on my radio show but the biggest extra calls on NHS costs is the ageing population combined with the expensive extra drugs & treatments available. As I clearly stated on the video. I’m the daughter of an NHS GP, btw.
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So it is under funded to deal with those challenges then?
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Yes. As I say pretty much every day on my radio show.
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Ah good. Ignore previous tweet in that case. My bad.
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Feel free to tweet the guy who posted the lie about me and tell him he’s lying!
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If I see it I will. Pleased you're not wrong about everything - just Brexit

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Plus progress! Look at the wonderful but expensive surgery now available for problems that would have dealt a fatal blow 20+ yrs ago!
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People/voters have no idea of how the NHS has ballooned out of all proportion to what it was intended. Does not need more money just accountability & full feasibility study. No government prepared to do it so will never change!
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Well if you value it, stop supporting the tories because their agenda and plan is to make it appear to be unfeasible so they can privatise the whole thing and sell off hospitals.
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I don’t support any political party. But I don’t believe they are planning to privatise it and would fight against any such attempt.
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@Telegraph. At least you’re fighting to keep the NHS, but the tories have privatised most other state owned services and this is one of very few left and the care services have already been put out to Virgin. I fear the NHS will be gone by 2025.
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Nothing to do with social care being cut by 6 billion and the NHS budget being cut in real terms. But you know facts
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Except the "NHS crisis" isn't caused by us living longer, it's caused by us not controlling migration. You are helping the establishment "blame old people" line and that line is a lie not a fact. We voted LEAVE to save our NHS. Please don't help them undermine our vote.
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that is not true. Migrants are net contributors to UK's economy, they are on average younger, healthier and more likely to work than then natives. You have been sold a lie. Brexit is going to kill the NHS. It's already costing the £350 million/week we were promised for the NHS.
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Migration watch says The net increase in the UK population of 57% is due to an influx of people into the UK.Why is this not mentioned?.Instead, the fact that people are living longer is put forward as the prime cause of pressure on the NHS
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because migrants are not a significant cause of pressure on the NHS, overall, they are net contributors to our economy and many of them work as nurses, doctors and in care. In general, they are significantly younger than the British population average. Immigration helps the NHS!
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Immigration HAS contributed signifi cantly to the increase in the UK population, migration watch,&The Migration Observatory, has substantiated this, it's obvious therefore this has contributed to pressure on NHS resources.Nothing to do with contribution to the economy. L
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It is a bit of a read, but the information is there. And of course if someone comes to your house and gives you a £1000 cheque, but you have to feed him tea, it'll have put a strain on your jam & butter, but you'll have benefitted https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-immigration-and-pressure-nhs/ … https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-and-nhs-staff/ …
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Thanks, will check it out
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The report is open to interpretation. And only deals with EU immigration. It states NHS trusts find it easier not to 'record' money owed by health tourism (estimated at £340 million.) This alone illustrates the impact from immigration on NHS finances. People versus resources.
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We are only leaving the EU though, so in discussions about Brexit, those are the relevant numbers. As far not charging EU visitors, presumably a cost/benefit analysis has been made? I agree that the issue is complex, but more complex than ‘it’s the immigration’
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Cost/ benefit analysis hasn't been made, as 'your' report states NHS Trusts fail to recoup, even avoid keeping records of health tourism from EU and non EU. It cant be denied long term immigration impacts on NHS resources. Never claimed it's entirely the fault of immigration."
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