My doctor was late to my appointment because he had been at the local country hotel full of asylum seekers...

This is not new. It is easier and most cost effective to travel to accommodation with many people who may need an appointment. I’m sure if you gathered the sick patients from your area in your home the doctor would visit there too.

Patch them up and we've solved the problem of military recruitment. They've come here because they live our country so much. The world is now entitled to the resources of the UK. So we have unlimited fighters.

I was under the impression that the government had contracted a private health company to service the medical needs of illegal immigrants. They go to the hotels to give them treatment. This clears the NHS doctors to still not give sick people appointments 😉

@WhyIsThereSoMuchWashingAllTheTime

an attack on the country is already happening by Russia.

You might want to look up some information on the real attack on the country by the Russians. Goes by the Name of Nigel Farage...

It will be a locally negotiated service. The practice will be paid by some other government body to do it (aka the tax payer but not NHS funds ....well it will be extra funding given to the NHS....) . We had this for the Syrian refugees, we were paid extra so we could do more checks on them.

Well what is your solution ? You’re the one who has raised an apparent objection to a GP visiting a hotel which houses asylum seekers.

So what would you suggest they do instead?

And surely you know the backlog on processing asylum seeker application mostly happened under the 14 years of the conservative. Not Labour who simply inherited this state of affairs.

All the GP appointments my mum and gran have are home visits. Hope that helps.

I've heard they're also pissing in a reservoirs and mooning in restaurant windows whilst people are having their bottomless brunches.

I got that from a fairly serious, well informed journalist

Why do you think the hotel has security in the first place if there are people like you posting all over the Internet that it's an asylum hotel.

Take it you've never been in an asylum hotel either. It definitely isnt 4 star luxury with the chef cooking meals off an a la carte menu. Think bunk beds in rooms originally intended for single people, mass catering using the cheapest possible ingredients. All asylum seeker food is meant to meet religious and cultural dietary needs. In practice this means that as long as the chicken nuggets are halal then thats sorted. Ever fancied chicken nuggets and chips at every meal for weeks on end?

And as for the GP thing, its actually quicker, easier, safer and more efficient if a GP does a 'ward round' in a hotel then getting people to traipse to the nearest surgery endlessly. Places like care homes also do this, its not just limited to asylum seekers.

Surely no different to NHS doctors doing private work? My dh has private healthcare through his company. He has access to a GP (via phone) for twenty four hours, everyday, if he needed one. I imagine several of these doctors are also NHS doctors.

OP keeps insisting this can’t be discussed properly and they’re not allowed to raise this issue blah blah.

However, all the reasonable debate has come from other posters and OP has disregarded the majority of these posts instead of properly engaging with these points. Ridiculous.

It is also quite possible that the GP was at the hotel under the auspices of the NHS.

It may well be considerably more efficient for one GP to go and see multiple people at once rather than using lots of single appointments. Particularly if translation services maybe required.
Ultimately asylum seekers have a right to health care and the GP presumably decides the best way to deliver this.

One of them comes to document all my doctor's appointments. You should sign up for premium. It's a nice service.

OP, YABVVVVU

You make a good point but you can't "catch" rickets from another person!

I agree with you OP. I can't even get a GP appointment at all. Days of calling at 8am and then just give up. Ignore the posters calling you racist. It is not racist to expect a country to put it's own citizens before those they take in from abroad.

I actually watched a podcast with a fairly serious, well informed journalist who was discussing asylum seekers. She said at first she thought they must be the brightest, most motivated men who after all managed to get themselves here. Thus the expectation that they would be go getters and hard working. However after she investigated she found quite the opposite and the people were getting brought here by crime organisations. Her theory actually was it was a russian attack on the country. I can't remember how she worded it and I will try and find the podcast but it actually made me see the men entering this country even more fearfully. Not only are they been given resources we don't have, raping our women etc, it is actually more sinister than that.
It did kind of make sense. After all look at the unrest it has caused.

As lots of us have said an attack on the country is already happening by Russia. Boats in our waters, interfering with underwater cabling and perhaps now this.
Meanwhile we have our goofy goverment bumbling about.

No Op I'm not because I'm currently in Malaysia enjoying their culture and the people, mainly I suppose because I'm not a xenophobic racist and so I feel happy experiencing different cultures and meeting people. Try it, you might learn something . . . but then again . . .

I was about to come on and say the same. People assuming thd doctor is moonlighting with no evidence l.

Because people like you would complain to the press if these ‘people’ were sitting in the waiting room at your GPs surgery.
The GP is doing you a favour by ensuring you don’t catch rickets, lice or leprosy whilst waiting for your blood pressure check up with the practice nurse 👍🏻

Why was a MN moderator in the surgery as well?

I should imagine part of it will be to avoid the locals with pitchforks if the people from "this place" turn up at the surgery in person.

Naming no names of course

lol

I voted wrong. YABVU.

Indeed. There's also a massive generalisation these days - propagated by the media - that "6-7 week waits for a GP appointment" is the norm everywhere. We can get a GP appointment the same day if we show up in person at 8.30am, next day if we complete an online form or call; if the issue reported is deemed urgent, the call or online form will result in a same day appointment.

But even people who don't have a racist axe to grind believe the generalisation. A friend who lives a long way from me has been complaining "You can't get to see a GP here" for 2 years - and so hasn't bothered trying. She's now in crippling pain from severe osteoporosis and can barely walk, so I instructed her to complete the online form, giving as much information as possible. She did it Monday afternoon - they rang and gave her an appointment the next day.

Just in case it’s not been mentioned it may be best to prevent the spread of TB.
if a person with TB came to the office it would mean lots of vulnerable people exposed and staff needing medication and follow up.
I bet it’s an infectious disease thing.