The former health secretary and Rushcliffe MP Ken Clarke says the Government should not rule out asking wealthier NHS patients to pay more for their treatment
. As millions wait for operations as senior leaders across the health service describe the NHS as being in a state of crisis, several initiatives are being taken to try and ease pressures.
Speaking to Times Radio's Matt Chorley on Monday, January 9, Lord Clarke said: "I do think, and I would have reacted to this ferociously at any time until the current crisis, we may have to look at some means of the better off patients making some modest contribution to their treatment, which we have always had in the case of prescription charges."We do pay [for prescriptions] until you become a pensioner, however well off you are as a pensioner, which is an anomaly.
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