The BBC reports that patients unable to access NHS care have raised £20 million through crowd funding to pay for care privately. As NHS underfunding continues it is sadly inevitable that more patients will have to pay out of pocket to get healthcare https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-47469031/we-chose-cancer-crowdfunding-over-making-memories …
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Replying to @CHPIthinktank
A lot of the treatments that are crowd funded for are experimental with no proven benefit. Are you saying the NHS should fund these?
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Replying to @alimully
Thanks Alison, to clarify private "self pay" is a growing trend in the UK due to NHS cut backs, in the US crowdfunding for care for those not insured is common. So whilst some self pay expenditure might be on unnecessary treatment it is also due to long NHS waits and rationing
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Replying to @CHPIthinktank @alimully
You used blatant cancer quackery as an example of this "self-funding." The NHS should not be paying for quackery, but that's sure what you seem to be saying.
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No. We used the fact that patients are crowdfunding to pay for care. If it didn't come across that way then apologies. But self funding of care and how people finance it is a big issue. Plenty of private hospitals now offer credit financing for treatment for example.
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You chose an example of patients using crowdfunding to pay for quack care, not legitimate care. There's a reason why the NHS doesn't fund such care, nor should it! Surely you could have found an example that didn't involve the worst form of cancer quackery?
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