Patients should pay for health 'extras' themselves, say doctors

[Northerner]

Senior doctors will today call for the NHS to impose top-up fees so that patients would pay for some services themselves.

Consultants, surgeons and GPs nationwide will argue that the health service can no longer provide everything the public wants, and will demand that a list of ?core? services is compiled so patients know what they can and cannot expect from the NHS.

At the British Medical Association?s annual meeting in Edinburgh today, senior doctors will say that top-up charges for treatments and medication outside of this list can no longer be ruled out.

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[LeeLee]

Judging by the recent thread about foot care and people having to pay for private chiropody treatment in the absence of NHS podiatry services, this is already happening in some areas.