Co-Payment
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Overview
Sometimes known as co-funding or top ups. This gives the patient the ability to part fund his or her treatment alongside the treatments already available on the NHS. You will find below references and guidance documents on how the schemes work.
Opinions are divided as to how this will work under the NHS and has stirred up debate within the community.
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Letter From David Nicholson
Guidance on NHS patients who wish to pay for additional private care
HoC (Stuff) 04-Nov-08
- Statement to the House of Commons by Sec. State Health, Improving access to medicines for NHS patients
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- Improving access to medicines for NHS patients - A report for the Secretary of State for Health by Professor Mike Richards CBE Nov 2008
Letter Ammending Terms of Government Euthenasia
Prof M A Richards
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
SW1A 2NS
4th November 2008
As you know, the Secretary of State for Health asked me on 17th June this
year to lead a review into policy for patients who may wish to buy
additional drugs privately. Over the course of the last four months, I
have heard from over 2,000 people, and these views have shaped the final
recommendations which I have now submitted to the Secretary of State. I am
deeply grateful to you for your contribution to this extremely important
debate, without which this review would not have been possible.
I am writing to you today not only to thank you for your contribution, but also to make you aware that the Secretary of State has today published my findings, and accepted all fourteen of my recommendations in an oral statement to the House of Commons. The main themes of my report are:
The Government, NICE and the pharmaceutical industry should take action to ensure that more drugs are available for NHS patients on the NHS For those few that may still wish to buy additional private care, the Government should clarify that patients should not lose their entitlement to NHS care, as long as the private element can be delivered separately from NHS care
In accepting my recommendation on “separate care”, the Secretary of State has also issued for consultation today revised guidance which makes clear that no patient should lose their entitlement to NHS care, but also that the NHS should never subsidise private care.
My report, which is entitled Improving access to medicines for NHS patients can be found at:
The draft guidance for NHS patients who wish to pay for additional private care can be found at:
The consultation on this guidance will be open until 27th January 2009.
Yours faithfully,
Professor Mike Richards, CBE
Reference
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Health by Professor Mike Richards CBE Nov 2008
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