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Sajid Javid idea to charge patients would undermine NHS and fail to tackle entrenched poverty, says former Labour prime ministerIdeas such as Sajid Javid’s suggestion that patients should be charged for visiting GPs or hospital emergency departments show the Conservatives are “testing the water for a different kind of NHS”, Gordon Brown has said.Writing in the Guardian, the former Labour prime minister says payment for services will end up with people missing early diagnoses and undermine the entire basis of the NHS. Continue reading...