Try booking a GP appointment in Britain. Go on. Try it.

You'll call at 8am. You'll sit in a queue of forty people. If you're lucky, you'll get a telephone callback three days from now. If you're unlucky (and most people are) you'll be told to call back tomorrow.

Now try being an asylum seeker.

Under current NHS guidelines, asylum seekers in government accommodation are entitled to register with a GP immediately upon arrival. Not after a waiting period. Not after proving residency. Immediately. Initial health assessments are supposed to happen within 48 hours.

48 hours. Your nan has been waiting six weeks for a blood test.

This isn't a conspiracy theory. It's on the NHS England website. It's official policy. Asylum seekers get fast-tracked into the system while British citizens who've paid taxes their entire lives are told the surgery is full.

The government calls it "equitable access." Normal people call it a two-tier system.

Here's how it works. When asylum seekers arrive at processing centres, they're assigned to local GP practices. These practices can't say no. They're required to register them. The result? Surgeries in areas with large asylum centres are overwhelmed. The same surgeries that were already struggling to see local patients.

In Skegness, one surgery reported that asylum seekers made up 30% of their patient list within months of a hotel opening nearby. Appointments for locals became almost impossible to get.

In Ipswich, residents complained that the local walk-in centre was permanently full of people from the nearby asylum hotel. The centre didn't get extra funding. It just got extra patients.

80 million GP appointments were missed in the UK last year because people couldn't get through on the phone. The average wait for a routine appointment is now over two weeks. In some areas, it's a month.

But if you crossed the Channel last Tuesday, you'll see a doctor before Friday.

Nobody elected this system. Nobody asked for it. And when people point it out, they're told they lack compassion.

Compassion for whom? Not for the 80-year-old who can't get her blood pressure checked. Not for the mother who can't get her child seen for an ear infection. Not for the cancer patient whose referral is stuck in a queue of thousands.

There are 7.6 million people on NHS waiting lists. Some of them will die waiting. But the hotels are full and the GP slots are booked.

Two-tier healthcare. Made in Britain.