Who does the NHS really belong to? While the Sun fulminates about the strain migration is placing on British hospitals, its worth considering whose taxes pay for them. Its a refrain of this column that we should be having a more meaningful conversation about diversity, and the hot topic of the day: migration. But its difficult. Well-meaning folk fight shy of talking about the subject because what they say gets twisted. Who wants to jump into a poisoned well? Perhaps that is why the Sun handled its feature on migrant births at the Homerton hospital in east London as it did? It didnt tell the hospital the feature, over two pages, was going to be about migrant births and the pressures on the NHS. It didnt tell the hospital there would be any nationality or citizenship element to the piece at all. And it certainly didnt tell hard-pressed staff, who generously gave time and attention, and the patients, pictured with their new borns, that drawn from their contributions would be a thundering Sun leader piece. theguardian/uk-news/2014/apr/21/who-does-nhs-belong-to-national-health-service-immigration
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:40:15 +0000
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