A 75-year-old cancer patient had her treatment wrongly delayed for months because the NHS demanded £150,000 from her first. Her doctor wrote to Matt Hancock asking him to step in - but to no avail. By me, for the Observerhttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/07/cancer-treatment-delayed-150000-pound-charge-nhs …
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In the latest case of the government's 'hostile environment' towards migrants, the woman was denied urgent treatment by Addenbrookes Hospital following the government's upfront charging regime for overseas patients.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/07/cancer-treatment-delayed-150000-pound-charge-nhs …
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The treatment was viewed by doctors at West Suffolk as urgent and immediately necessary - and thus exempt from upfront charging. But Addenbrookes disagreed, reducing her chances of successful treatment. Her cancer has spread and is now terminal.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/07/cancer-treatment-delayed-150000-pound-charge-nhs …
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Her family and her doctor appealed to Matt Hancock, her local MP. But despite the health secretary touring TV studios promising he would look at individual cases where charges were wrongly applied, he more or less sat this one out.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/07/cancer-treatment-delayed-150000-pound-charge-nhs …
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I want to add, as stated in the article - it is not clear if the cancer would have been prevented from becoming terminal had treatment not been delayed. Clearly, however, the delay did not help
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