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What is it? Now 60 years old, the National Health Service (NHS) is the largest single organisation in Europe, with more than 1.3 million staff. It has an annual budget in excess of £100 billion and is responsible for the care of all 60 million residents in the UK. The service is used by an average o...
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We examine what the new regulations on paying for drugs means for patients
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Up to 10,000 patients will pay to top up their care when Alan Johnson, the health secretary, lifts the ban next month on National Health Service patients buying drugs that the state does not fund.
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Concerns about payments just to meet quotas
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After at least four deaths and a year of protests about top-up payments, Alan Johnson, the health secretary, is expected to declare that National Health Service rules allowed them all along.
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We need a new approach to health funding and the answer lies in reforms already made in the field of social care. To tackle many of the painful and apparently insoluble problems of the National Health Service we should give every individual patient control over tax-based funds.
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A mother of three 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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