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Creeping rationing of NHS care in England is making patients suffer unnecessarily, doctors are warning.
People needing knee and hip replacements are having to wait longer in pain for operations, the British Medical Association says.
And relatively minor treatments - such as varicose vein removal - are being scrapped altogether, medics at the BMA's annual GP conference will say.
Ministers say front-line services should not be affected by budget cuts.
But GPs believe the problems are being caused by the drive to make savings.
The NHS has been told to make up to ?20bn of savings by 2015.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18143085
People needing knee and hip replacements are having to wait longer in pain for operations, the British Medical Association says.
And relatively minor treatments - such as varicose vein removal - are being scrapped altogether, medics at the BMA's annual GP conference will say.
Ministers say front-line services should not be affected by budget cuts.
But GPs believe the problems are being caused by the drive to make savings.
The NHS has been told to make up to ?20bn of savings by 2015.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18143085