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Hospital patients could soon be asked to show their passports before they're seen. A senior Department of Health official confirmed yesterday the government is considering introducing the ID check nationwide to tackle so called ‘health tourism’.

Former cancer surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, Meirion Thomas, and chair of the British Medical Association Dr Mark Porter discuss the merits of the policy.

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