As, Purni Morell reminds us in a letter to The Guardian, the fees for access to #NHS services & #healthcare has been with us for some time:
'Britons have paid for eye care, dentistry, prescriptions & a whole host of other treatments apparently considered peripheral for years. Isn’t it time we admitted that the NHS has not existed as intended for several decades & if we want to bring it back then we must choose to pay sufficient levels of tax to fund it?'