NHS allow rich patients to pay for better pills than poor counterparts receive - The Guardian 7th October 2008

Friday, November 07, 2008

Were Britain’s doctors this week the victims of spin doctors? A fundamental change in the nature of the NHS was revealed on Tuesday, when that night’s TV news and the next day’s papers were guaranteed to be filled with the US election. The recent history of political management encourages the suspicion that the government was hoping to bury the announcement that patients who buy drugs the health service refuses to fund will no longer have to opt out of public medicine and pay for their own nursing and care.

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