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Ministers demand passports for healthcare
Overstretched A&E staff forced to root out foreigners with immigration checks

Overstretched hospital emergency staff face having to check patients' nationalities so that "foreigners" can be charged for treatment.

Ministers in the midst of a crusade against health and safety "red tape" plan to dump a mountain of extra non-medical work on life-saving staff in their latest scapegoating of visitors from overseas.

Doctors' surgeries will also have to root out non-Britons to slap a price tag on their healthcare.

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