Is there a doctor in the house?

Probably not - you would be lucky to find a nurse.

Currently there are 38,000 NHS staff vacancies. There is a hard limit on issuing visas for non-EU skilled professionals, currently set at 20,700 a year. Last year 2,360 doctors were refused entry because until this month the limit included health workers.

It isn't just that we are preventing people coming. European nurses are fleeing the UK as Brexit looms. In the last year 3,962 left and only 805 arrived. In 2015-16, before the referendum, 9,389 EU nurses came. That's a downswing of 12,000 - Mrs May should be happy, as that must make a reasonable dent in the immigration figures.

So are we replacing disappearing healthcare professionals with home-grown staff? No. Last year 21,931 UK nurses started while 25,400 left the profession. So not only have we lost over 3,000 EU nurses we have also lost 3,500 UK nurses. That is a total of 6,500 nurses lost in the last year alone.

A third of all the nurses who are still working are also thinking of leaving the profession - often because the growing lack of staff means increasing pressure on those remaining. This pressure can lead to serious personal consequences for them and their patients. For example, Dr Bawa-Garba was struck off for mistakes that led to the death of a patient - she was still being trained and yet was left in sole charge of  an emergency department and acute Children’s Assessment Unit. There was not a single consultant available. The nurse monitoring the boy was given a two-year suspended jail sentence for manslaughter on the grounds of gross negligence; Dr Bawa-Garba was struck off the medical register - out of a job and barred from her chosen profession.

The recent government-led Windrush pogrom won't have helped either.

The British Nationality Act was passed in 1948 and gave British citizenship to all people living in Commonwealth countries. The government wanted people to help rebuild Britain after the war. People came with young children, settled, worked, contributed to their local and wider communities.

In 2010 the UK Border Agency, under Mrs May, destroyed their registration slips - the evidence that they had arrived legally. Then in 2014, as part of her 'hostile environment' policy for immigrants, Mrs May passed a bill allowing the government to take away people's citizenship. These two steps allowed her to begin deporting the Windrush generation, since they could no longer prove they were in the UK legally.

Mrs Rudd took the fall for that nasty stitch-up, leaving its originator, Mrs May, still in charge. Astonishingly, the home secretary, Mr Javid, has persuaded Mrs May to allow more doctors and nurses to come here by issuing more visas. It is amazing she agreed - it isn't just the numbers of visas for staff, they will bring their families too - however the concession is temporary.

Whether enough doctors and nurses will actually apply is the next question: Come to Britain - until we don't need you any more, and just hope you don't get kicked out, sent to prison or ruined.

You may be best advised to learn some First Aid. I did a course last week, so I'm OK.