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In her Foreword to the NHS White Paper Working for Patients (DoH, 1989) the Prime Minister offers us two forthright assurances. The first is that:
‘The National Health Service will continue to be available to all,regardless of income, and to be financed mainly out of general taxation’.
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Williams, A. (1990). Ethics, Clinical Freedom and the Doctors’ Role. In: Culyer, A.J., Maynard, A., Posnett, J. (eds) Competition in Health Care. Economic Issues in Health Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21052-7_7
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