NHS: "Rationing is the great unspoken reality"

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Doctor magazine asked readers about rationing. Of 653 answering questions on consequences, 107 – 16% – said patients had died early as a result.

More than half – 349 – said patients had suffered as a result. This compared with one in five in a similar survey conducted nine years ago.

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