NHS to cut free operations and introduce mouth test for dentistry
publication date: Mar 11, 2011
Bob Ricketts, a big cheese at the UK Department of Health has been telling visiting analysts from Australia and New Zealand that the English government is likely to halt free cataracts, bariatric surgery, varicose veins and IVF, as it attempts to cut NHS public healthcare expenditure. Separately, a private equity source said that there are plans to stop free dentistry to people who don’t floss and brush their teeth.
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