(UK) NHS rationing is putting health at risk, says doctors' leader [View all]
Source: The Guardian
The NHS is putting patients' health at risk by denying them drugs and operations because of growing rationing being imposed to save money, the new leader of Britain's doctors has warned.
The drive to meet demanding efficiency targets is so serious that the NHS is offering some GPs surgeries extra money if they send fewer patients for tests and treatment in hospital —a move condemned as "morally wrong" by Dr Mark Porter, the British Medical Association's recently elected chair of council.
In his first interview since taking up the post Porter said the NHS was offering fewer and fewer services to patients and that many had been "cut out", often against doctors' wishes.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/31/nhs-rationing-risking-lives-doctors-leader
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