NHS: Fees and Charges
(asked on 7th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential merits and demerits of introducing user charges in the NHS.
This question was answered on 15th September 2015
The Government remains committed to the principles of the National Health Service, enshrined in the NHS Constitution, that access to NHS services is based on clinical need, not the ability to pay, and we have previously ruled out introducing charges.
The Government has committed to fully meeting the additional funding requirement – £8 billion per year over and above inflation by 2020-21 – identified by the Five Year Forward View.