‘Only a former well being secretary brazenly calling for £20 fees per GP go to & £66 per journey to A&E.’
Sajid Javid, the Former chancellor and Well being Secretary, has not solely written approvingly of charges that some European international locations cost for visits to the GP, he has additionally labelled a charge to attend A&E with out a GP referral as merely ‘nominal’.
Writing in at the moment’s Guardian, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown highlighted how Javid has ‘written approvingly of the £20 charge that some European international locations cost for visits to the GP’.
“He labels Eire’s €75 (£66) invoice for attending an A&E with out a GP’s referral as merely “nominal”, as if it’s so modest {that a} greater cost can be extra applicable”, writes Brown.
Brown’s feedback got here after Javid penned an article within the Occasions, the place he makes the case for reworking the NHS. The previous Well being Secretary argues that “extending the contributory precept” must be a part of radical reforms to deal with rising ready occasions.
His proposed system would work towards the pursuits of these from poorer and marginalised communities.
Javid’s concepts will undoubtedly result in two-tier well being system, during which these already struggling to make ends meet can be punished for being sick.
The measures additionally threaten the precept of free NHS care on the level of want.
His plans had been additionally condemned on-line, with Rachel Clarke, a palliative care physician tweeting: “Only a former well being secretary brazenly calling for £20 fees per GP go to & £66 per journey to A&E.
“This has all the time, all the time been the federal government’s NHS agenda. Outsource, privatise, make you pay (once more).
“Anybody severely imagine Sunak doesn’t need the identical?”
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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