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Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that the NHS "must be preserved from commercial interests who want to privatise it", in a heartfelt tribute to the health service, recorded to accompany a new documentary about his life.
Professor Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, said that he would not be alive today without the NHS, which he described as "Britain's finest public service".
Speaking for a Channel 4 short film to be broadcast on Wednesday, the world-famous physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, recalled his previous public statements about the health service, which came at the height of President Obama's healthcare reforms, when an American newspaper claimed that he would have died already if he were British had to rely on the NHS.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...erved-from-commercial-interests-30957240.html
Professor Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, said that he would not be alive today without the NHS, which he described as "Britain's finest public service".
Speaking for a Channel 4 short film to be broadcast on Wednesday, the world-famous physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, recalled his previous public statements about the health service, which came at the height of President Obama's healthcare reforms, when an American newspaper claimed that he would have died already if he were British had to rely on the NHS.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...erved-from-commercial-interests-30957240.html