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Daniel Keane

NHS Scotland leaders ‘discuss idea of wealthy paying for treatment’

Nurses work on patients in the ICU in St George’s Hospital in Tooting (Stock image)

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NHS bosses in Scotland have discussed introducing charges for treatment for wealthy people, according to a report.

Draft minutes of a meeting of NHS Scotland health board chief executives in September, leaked to the BBC, showed that the possibility of creating a “two-tier system” was mentioned as well as the possibility of ending some free prescriptions.

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