Doctors’ report claims: ‘We no longer have free health care’

Increasing numbers of patients are paying for private “top-up” treatments alongside NHS care, meaning the health service is no longer free, a report by leading doctors warns today. The doctors have written to all three main political parties, and the Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, outlining their concerns that the idea of a free health service is a “political mirage”.

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