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As NHS funding cuts bite, are NHS hospitals muddying the waters between NHS and private patients?
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In the first of a new series of dispatches from the frontline of England's National Health Service, published in...
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The government is both squeezing real NHS funding, something it has been reprimanded for repeatedly denying, and it...

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