The NHS should start charging fees for frontline services to patients who can afford it,The former health secretary is calling for radical reforms which he says are ‘crucial’ to the survival of the health service.
He pointed to other European countries where similar measures are commonplace, such as Norway and Sweden, where a GP visit costs around £20. Mr Javid called for a ‘grown-up, hard-headed conversation’ involving all parties, attacking politicians for avoiding reforms in favour of praising the NHS ‘because it’s what people want to hear’.He added that ‘too often the appreciation for the NHS has become a religious fervour and a barrier to reform’, arguing that Westminster is frozen in belief that politicians have to ‘fix it, without touching it’.
Just the sick ones
Some now, all earlier 🤡
That idea has already been discredited, as the cost of implementing it would be more than anything collected. If I know this, why doesn't,he,?!
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