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

And this is sourced from?????

An honest question. My phone is showing only the headline.

And conversely I’m very close to an immigration detention centre and I got a same day appointment twice in the last two weeks.

All GP clinics within the NHS operate as businesses. If they choose to take a contract to look after asylum seekers as part of their revenue generation, it is a business decision by that clinic and is not taking money or appointments from the NHS. You are falling for the right wing rhetoric again that you are losing out. This is not a private GP and if it was, you should be happy about it, as then it really wouldn't be taking anything from anyone operating within the NHS space.

For being secretly bussed in , that headline is very precise on the time it happened.

What is the source @doodiethewonderdog ?

So should they have a private gp or be treated by the NHS? Which situation would be palatable to you? You do accept that they’ll need some form of medical screening? Imagine if they had TB and didn’t know, and went round spreading it about.

If its any consolation OP, no AS around here that I'm aware of and I can't get a GP appointment for love nor money, so its probably not an asylum issue.

When you can stop wars in other countries, then people will stop fleeing war.

The idea that refugees are coming to stay in a shitty hotel for £8 a week and the sneers of entitled Brits is laughable.

Walk across a country, cross the channel and spend your days in a refugee hotel eating rotten food. You'll have a roof over your head and heating! You'll have a doctor tending you!

It would be so easy for you to bob over to France and live their dream. Sure the authorities would eventually realise you you're a Brit. Nothing stopping you heading back to France and crossing the Channel again! Repeat as needed.

Then be sure to update the thread as to how long you wait for a GP appointment. I bet you can page him when you're seeking asylum and he just comes straight away.

I mean life is so shite here - but life is AMAZING for refugees!!

Take your life savings to keep crossing that channel. Live the dream!!

Eh? These things are usually measured by year. If Starmer ends up being PM for five years, I’d expect there would be more arrivals than under say, Liz Truss who was PM for about 24 hours.

That figure is for more than one year

Yes - since Starmer became PM.

That figure is for more than one year. The peak year for boat arrivals was 2022 (45,000). There were similar numbers 20 years previously but I don’t remember people being arsed back then. Maybe it’s the boats they don’t like? Before Brexit when they arrived in the backs of lorries people were far more relaxed about it.

A doctor is likely to go there once a week and see anyone who needs seeing in a clinic. Who is to say the people the doctor sees for that one day in clinic haven’t wait 6-7 weeks for their turn?

'Smash the gangs'

Ah yes. GBeebies, that well known bastion of impartiality. I am not clicking that, thanks.

We are now in 2026

Well ok, I just googled and found this from 4 hours ago;

Keir Starmer’s small boats record officially WORST of any PM after 65k cross under Labour's watch.

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/migrant-crisis-keir-starmer-small-boats-boris-johnson

How many are still going through the system now, including appeals?

Are you stuck in a time lapse? We are now in 2026.

Oh away and grow up and stop being so hateful!!!

My husband not doctor but health service has run clinics in our local asylum seeker accommodation and some of the people have awful health issues.
They are not here looking for health care before you start any nonsense, but some are in great need.
There is money funnelled into the NHS outside the usual budget so they're not queue jumping or anything like that before you go go down that line of hatred too.

I can't believe you've written this down. You need to bleach your brain and get rid of these ugly hateful thoughts.

My apologies, I was looking at their briefing with the same title, published a year later.

Nevertheless, not an exact science;

An estimated 387,000 foreign-born people living in the UK in 2022 said they originally came to the UK to seek asylum, according to Migration Observatory analysis of the Annual Population Survey.

Data on foreign-born UK residents’ main reason for moving to the UK come from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), the largest official household survey in the UK. Only one ‘main’ reason for migration is recorded, though in practice people may have more than one reason for moving. The data reflect self-reported reasons and will not necessarily match people’s legal immigration status.

300,000 more people have applied for asylum since 2023.

Did you read the actual report?

How many are still going through the system now, including appeals? How many have been refused asylum but we have been unable to remove them, or they have disappeared?

In 2006, Labour's then Home Secretary discovered he had 450,000 unresolved asylum applications, more than half of which he didn't know existed!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/feb/26/immigration

If you click on the link it is the very first sentence of the report (which then elaborates further).

“In 2022, an estimated 0.6% of the UK population consisted of people who came to the country seeking asylum. The majority of these people were long-term residents who had been in the UK for more than a
decade.“

Is that your calculation or theirs? Can you quote?

NRTWT

Asylum seekers are entitled to NHS care - not sure why you think they’re not. Many that I’ve worked with have been unvaccinated and also in need of immediate treatment with antibiotics etc due to infection. Some I’ve worked with have been quarantined in their accommodation until treatment is complete so have to have treatment there.

my surgery is a several week wait for routine appointments too but urgent appointments can be arranged sooner. So can home visits if absolutely required.

How long after they have received settled status are you willing to stop calling them asylum seekers? Or is it a permanent thing that they can never get past?