Pay £10 to see a GP, says Tory
THE Tories were embroiled in another internal row over the NHS last night after one of their MEPs called for working people to be charged £10 to see a GP.
Charles Tannock, the party's European Parliament spokesman on foreign affairs, said he would like to see such payments – and fines for non-attendance – to help fund the health service.
But shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley ruled out the idea and said he believed it would end up costing the NHS more money to operate than it would receive in fees and fines.
Dr Tannock, a consultant psychiatrist, before being elected as an MEP, said: "I would be totally in favour of small payments being made if you turn up to things and perhaps small fines being levied if you do not."
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