The promise made by Prime Minister David Cameron of regulating the health tourism is being criticized after the revelation of the official statistical that highlights that the charges to the NHS is 18 times reduced than the amount which is claimed by the government.

In the beginning of the current year, the PM committed of stricter controls for limiting the immigrant access to the NHS. He said that whatever is free in the national health is not free at the international levels.

Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary made claims that the health tourism is costing health services a massive sum of £200 million a year. However, the records show that the NHS has been forced to write off £11 million worth of bills from foreign patients.

The figures turned into accusations that the health secretary had overstated the scale of the problem. The shadow health minister, Andrew Gwynne, blamed the health minister of playing at a faster pace and playing loosely.

He stated that the NHS must get back the amount of money which is spent by them on overseas patients. The crises in the A&E departments are increasing and the minister seems to be more interested in scaremongering than in resolving the problems.

The Prime Minister discussed about the topic in his speech on immigration in March. This comes up after weeks of enforcement from the Conservative backbenchers and the UK Independence Party. He promised that the new controls on migrants’ admittance to health care, housing and benefits.