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# NHS campaign guide - charging and insurance
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-campaign-guide-charging-and-insurance/
- Published: 2013-12-10T12:12:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T00:12:55.000Z
- Description: Despite promises to protect an NHS 'free at the point of use' there are signs that charging is on its way. One of OurNHS's key NHS campaigns.
- Author: OurNHS
- Tags: Resources , #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:46, #appended-excerpt

Read OurNHS stories on charging and insurance (including charging of migrants) [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/freeform-tags/charging-and-insurance) and on personal budgets [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/freeform-tags/personal-budgets) or see the links on the right.

[‘The big ideas - personal health budgets’](http://www.patients4nhs.org.uk/nhs/your-rights-as-an-nhs-patient/?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- an overview from Patients for the NHS.

[‘Introducing self-pay from Care](http://www.reasonandreality.org/?p=2346&ref=opendemocracy.net) UK’ - Care UK are marketing heavily to GPs, who are under increasing pressure not to refer patients for NHS-funded treatments.

[A history of charging](///C:/Users/User/Desktop/.%20http:/www.sochealth.co.uk/national-health-service/access-to-health-care-and-charges/) for prescriptions and social care prepared by right-wing think tank Reform but with some useful information.

[Ask your GP](http://www.keepournhspublic.com/campaignresources.php?ref=opendemocracy.net) to oppose migrant charges.

Find other campaigning tips on our 'Resources - Campaign tools' page [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/ournhs/resources-practical-tools-for-nhs-campaigners).

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Despite promises to protect an NHS 'free at the point of use' there are signs that charging is on its way. One of OurNHS's [key NHS campaigns](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/ournhs/key-nhs-campaigns).