Quote Originally Posted by pipster View Post
Is it coming to the UK soon ?

Free at the point of entry I believe - regardless of age, income or status.

There is an argument to be had re it's for UK citizens or people tax or NI etc.

There has always been the option to pay for a private consultation - freedom of choice.
Dont know if you are aware - but GPs are not employed by the NHS they are independent and private companies / partnerships.

Under Labours proposals GP practices will be abolished and converted into super centres and GPs will become employees of the NHS (something none of them want).
If we use Dental treatment as a yardstick, this past 3 years has seen shift from NHS to private treatment not as a policy but the real world situation of getting an NHS dentist, I'm an NHS patient but the treatment I've had the past 3 years has all been on a private basis not because of choice of wanting to wedge them up but because I didn't want to wait in excess of 6/8 months for treatment, it's being forced due to lack of NHS availability, trying to get a doc appointment now is difficult in many parts especially face to face, how many women will spread their fanny apart in front of a monitor to a doc but would do it face to face in a surgery?, Blair started dismantling the NHS, continued and then some, by the Tory brigades since, the stealth operation will continue under Starmer, and when a majority are paying for it, we'll get the reveal that treatment will go all insurance based, this is all opinion of course, but also takes into consideration, observation of the past 2/3 decades and the manner at which the now failing NHS service has been gradually run down.