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The rule preventing NHS patients from "topping up" their treatment is cruel and vindictive. Under existing guidelines, anyone paying for drugs with their own money may be deprived of any further free health care. This is a crude form of blackmail by the state provider that may have been understandab...
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Britain's healthcare system is worse than Estonia's, according to a survey on patient experience.
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The NHS is spending twice as much on drugs to treat alcoholism as a decade ago, official figures show.
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Top-up payments will be allowed for all National Health Service patients, the government is expected to announce, in a move critics described as a "u-turn".
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The NHS could have to pay more than £12 billion in compensation to patients, official estimates show.
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The disclosure that hospitals across the country are exploiting a loophole to enable NHS patients pay for their own private drug treatment highlights the idiocy of this mean-minded policy.
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A mother has died from cancer after her family was forced to pay £20,000 for treatment she was denied by the National Health Service because she had bought a drug privately.
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