On 15/09/08 12:30, wrote:
On 15 Sep, 11:00, IanAl wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:15:06 +0100, BobC wrote:
"A friend" who works for in the medical profession told me about a
patient who arrived for an appointment. He asked for his name, but as
he was foreign couldn't understand it, so asked him to spell it. In
response he offered his driving licence to copy it from.
But on seeing the licence, the picture was nothing like the person
presenting it. In fact not even the same skin colour!
I said "Well I assume you asked him to sit in the waiting room, while
you went and called the police!"
It's not a crime to present another person's driving licence to a
doctor.

But it is fraud (at least morally) to obtain free NHS treatment when
you are not entitled to it. Obtaining prescription medicines
prescribed to someone else would be a drug offence as well.

But in any event, a driving licence alone is no evidence of immigration
status.

- Ian

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