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EXTENDING charges for overseas visitors and migrants who use the NHS risks “normalising” fees for healthcare, the Green Party said yesterday.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched a consultation on widening a “cost recovery programme” under which non-EU visitors are charged for hospital treatment.
They could also now be charged for visits to A&E, ambulance call-outs, prescriptions and other services under the plans.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
