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nOthinG highlighted the plight of the vulnerable elderly more than the story of an 80-year-old woman kicked out of her nhS bed in the middle of the night to free up space. Pam Little had Parkinson’s disease, dementia and heart disease, yet officials deemed her fit enough to go home.

health experts say the nhS cannot cope with the strain of elderly patients, but surely this was something it could have forecast decades ago.

What it couldn’t have predicted is the 800,000 eU migrants who’ve poured into this country in the past year alone and been given access to the nhS.

it truly shames us when those who’ve contributed to society for their entire lives are abandoned by carers for new arrivals who have contributed nothing.

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