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23.01.2023 - 14:13 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Gordon Brown has warned that senior Conservatives are "testing the water for a different kind of NHS" which could see the public charged for some services.
The former prime minister hit out following a claim by Sajid Javid that patients should pay a fee for visiting GPs or A&E wards.
Javid, a former UK health secretary, claimed in an interview last week the NHS could not "survive much longer" without radical change including introducing patient charges.
Brown, who stepped down as Labour leader in 2010, warned "the direction in which the Conservatives are travelling is already clear".
"Javid, a former chancellor and health secretary, has written approvingly of the £20 fee that some European countries charge for visits to the GP," he wrote in a column for the Guardian.
"He labels Ireland’s €75 (£66) bill for attending an A&E without a GP’s referral as merely 'nominal', as if it’s so modest that a higher charge would be more appropriate. And he calls for a national debate on the contribution private financing can make to healthcare."But the direction in which the Conservatives are travelling is already clear. The sick would pay for being sick and charging would force, as has happened with GP and hospital fees in France, the better-off sections of the population to take out private insurance – inevitably creating, in its wake, a two-tier healthcare system."
Brown added: "Javid’s intervention is no accident.
"The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, who has used private healthcare, once came up with a proposal for new charges: £10 for patients who miss GP and hospital appointments. And so once again, as they did in opposition at the turn of this century, with Alternative Prescriptions, Conservatives are testing the water for a different
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