Divided loyalties in National healthcare

I’d rather have health care savings accounts – the patient owns his own care and the doctor works for the patient and only the patient.

Patients left in the dark about life-saving drugs
By Martyn Halle
(Filed: 14/08/2005)

Hospital consultants are failing to tell patients about ground-breaking drugs, such as the colon cancer treatment Avastin, that could save their lives.

There is growing evidence that doctors are concealing treatment options that are not available on the National Health Service but can be obtained privately.