[Margaret Pilkington]

Many of the leaflets which have been translated and printed(especially the Asian languages) cannot be read as the people they are intended for either cannot read or they speak village dialects.
So it IS a real waste of resources.
My mother had her money stolen from her handbag in Spain in a gypsy 'bumping episode'.
She had to pay to have an interpreter at the police station.

The world sees this country as a 'soft' touch.
The people who come here with the premeditated intention of gaining access to services at no cost to themselves are fraudsters. They should be labelled as such, not health tourists.

My sister in law came over from Australia some years ago and needed to see a doctor to get a prescription. She tried to pay for this service, but was told not to bother. So her consultation was free as was her prescription medication(she was over 60) but had not lived in this country or paid NI contributions since 1956.