Another day, another scapegoat - that is the only explanation for Jeremy Hunt's attempt to blame health service shortcomings on the mythical phenomenon of "health tourism."

The figures quoted by the Department of Health and by various media supporters of the Tory witch-hunt against overseas non-payers for healthcare in Britain give every indication of calculations on the back of a fag packet.

Hunt's motivation, including the appointment of Health Education England non-executive board director Keith Pearson to advise on visitor and migrant cost recovery, is essentially electoral.