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NHS users 'should be charged a £10 monthly membership fee'

People should be charged a £10 monthly membership fee for using the NHS, a new report says. Co-authored by former Labour health minister Lord Warner, the study called for radical changes to how the NHS is funded.

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NHS 'out-of-date and unaffordable'

A proposed NHS funding revamp championed by a former health minister could raise more than £6 billion a year, its authors said.

Lord Warner said the NHS is its current form was "unaffordable" and hurting other public services:

We can no longer pay homage to an out-of-date and unaffordable NHS that's unfit for today's and tomorrow's care needs.

The day of reckoning has arrived with an obesity epidemic on our doorstep. The NHS has to change radically and fast over a single Parliament with flat-lined funding.

It should have no more hand-outs at the expense of other public services.

– Lord Warner

The report added:

By the end of the next Parliament, providing there was the political will, it is possible to envisage these changes in entitlements yielding over £6 billion a year.

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