THE NHS “must be maintained on its founding principles”, Scotland’s Health Secretary has said after Sajid Javid called for patients to be charged to visit GPs and A&Es.
Writing in The Times, the former UK Government health secretary argued that the current free-at-the-point-of-need NHS model is “unsustainable”.
Javid called for a “grown-up, hard-headed conversation” about revamping the health service, noting that “too often the appreciation for the NHS has become a religious fervour and a barrier to reform”.
