Submitted on Monday 6th February 2017
Rejected on Tuesday 7th February 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
To avoid abuse of the NHS all visitors to the UK must have medical insurance
Health tourism is a major problem for the NHS which costs over £400m a year. Many NHS staff believe that the actual cost is much higher. This would be simply resolved if it were compulsory for all visitors to the UK to demonstrate that they have adequate health insurance before being granted entry.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/170532
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