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"DOCTORS can choose whether to accept failed asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants on their lists. Health care lawyer David Lock has said family doctors have the discretion to decide who they register as a patient. Once illegal immigrants are on a GP list they are entitled to free primary care, some of it for chronic conditions and costing hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, according to Mr Lock. The right to free care does not extend to hospital care except in emergencies.Mr Lock, a former Labour MP and head of health care at law firm Mills & Reeve, said the legal situation governing the treatment of failed asylum seekers was confusing and complex. He said: "Our advice is that a GP has discretion to decide to take people on – they don't have to, but they can."
