Polly Toynbee: The public deserves protection from the false hope of 'wonder drugs' - The Guardian 20th June 2008

Calls to allow patients to top up treatments with their own money ignore how seldom the NHS denies patients help Will there be many happy returns for the NHS, reaching 60? Along with the BBC, this emblem of national identity is one that politicians undermine at their peril - even if, like the BBC, human fallibility can never quite match the Olympian ideal.

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