Some facts from Channel 4 ... they looked at A&E waiting times and non-British populations, their conclusion:
"there’s no correlation between the proportion of immigrants in an area and the performance of local A&E departments."
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For example, about 31 per cent of people in North West London are not from the UK. That’s the highest rate of non-Brits of anywhere in England. But local A&E departments do pretty well – ranking 15th out of 43.
The region covering Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire and Luton has one of the largest immigrant communities in England (we estimate about 13 per cent of the general population is not British), but ranks sixth best in terms of A&E performance.
And at the other end of the scale, there are plenty of regions (Lancashire and South Cumbria, Staffordshire, and Shropshire for example) that rank low in terms of immigrant populations but where A&E departments are doing badly compared to others.
It really does seem that people are just making these problems up. Most likely people hear some non-British voices and then assume the room is full of foreigners and start complaining. But the statistics really don't seem to agree with this, and if anything, the areas where there are more immigrants have better hospital waiting times and fewer problems.
