NHS crisis: 'Over my dead body' - Proposals to make some patients pay for care spark backlash

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Defenders of the NHS as a free for all service warn that charging some patients will create a two-tier system that will fail the most vulnerable NHSinCrisis

In November 2022, Health SecretaryThey were employing more staff for NHS 111 and 999 services, focusing on urgent and emergency care, tackling delays in discharge from hospital, improving access to primary care, and investing in technology.

But he too has been under fire for outlining the Opposition's proposals for GP reform - saying a Labour government would"tear up the contract" with GPs and could make family doctors salaried NHS employees.Sajid Javid's proposal would see patients charged £20 fees for GP appointments and £66 for emergency visits without a referral. The idea will be met with fierce opposition from frontline medics.

"I want to see [extra funding] in social care, I want to see the right size of hospitals ... we've lost thousands of hospital beds over the last decade, but we need to work out as a population what the right number is. He said:"Money in the right places fixes the NHS. Short-term projects - to put a holding pen for ambulances outside the A&E - don't fix the NHS. Short-term projects to help buy some hotel rooms for care home patients or patients who need to leave hospital don't fix the NHS.

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nhsuhcw annabotting I live in Rugby, we have a council building 25% more homes than the national average and we are now like a small city, yet we don’t even have an A&E or ambulance statio. All of the services we used to have, have been taken away.

nhsuhcw annabotting Not when people with sporting injuries have 1/2 dozen operations due to their lifestyle choices, sorry but no sympathy for Tony: physio is much better when paid for privately

& where the heck does everyones National Insurance go?....

Ridiculous! NHS is paid by taxes it's not free. So the rich can afford it, and the poor will die! Politics want private health because MP's have their hands in that pot!

That’s entirely the point. Nothing is as effective at marketing for Tory owned private health insurance than having sick and dying poor people hobbling around your town centre.

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