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MPs debate NHS overseas charges

The issue of patients from overseas using the NHS has been in the headlines over the last couple of weeks and now the government wants hospitals in England to get tough.

From April this year foreign patients could be refused non emergency operations unless they pay up front.

NHS doctor and broadcaster Phil Hammond, Labour MP Kate Hoey and Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames discuss whether this is the right approach.

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