Access to Health Care

• Consultation on the hospital travel costs scheme ends 13 April 2007
• Co-payments and charges in the NHS - SHA evidence to the Health Select Committee 2005
• SSP Consultation on Proposal to abolish NHS Prescription Charges in Scotland
• Eligibility criteria for patient transport services
• Free at the Point of Delivery Macmillan Cancer Support 2005
• Free Prescriptions: A Welsh Solution To Welsh Health Problems
• Government announces next steps in reform of NHS dentistry 2005
• Health committee report on NHS Charges July 2006 Government response October 2006
• Healthcare in rural settings - BMA 2005
• Hidden price of getting treatment - Macmillan
• Hospital travel costs scheme regulations
• Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme: Instructions and guidance for the NHS. March 2008
• Immobile Phone Charges in the NHS Tribune 2007
• Improving health through transport 2005
• In-patient Charges (Ireland)
• Introduction of Prescription Charge debate December 1949
• NHS Costs - official guidance
• NHS Low Income Scheme
• Making the Connections: Final Report on Transport and Social Exclusion SEU 2003
• National Consumer Council report - Creeping Charges
• Prescription charges - should they be abolished? Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain January 2005.
• Prescriptions policy is 'dog's dinner' (Social Market Foundation 2004)
• Scottish Campaign to Remove All Prescription Charges
• Scotland abolishes prescription charges 2007
• Social exclusion and the provision of public transport
• Unhealthy charges: CAB evidence on the impact of health charges
• Wales leads the way as prescription charges fall
• Which? campaign on dentistry

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