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Healthcare - Britain’s Healthcare Lottery |
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Broadcast on 27th November 2006, the Dispatches programme titled “Britains Healthcare Lottery” raised a number of concerns and issues levied at the region variations within the National Health Service.
In partnership with independent health and social care research specialists Dr Foster , Dispatches highlighted the difference in access to potentially life saving drugs and treatments under different Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s) which has created what is referred to as the ‘Postcode Lottery’.
"Jon Snow reveals the scale of the NHS postcode lottery that is denying some patients vital drugs and for the first time the Dispatches website offers a user's guide on how to fight the system to get the treatment you need."
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