How’s That Government-run Health Care Working Out Britain?
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The Telegraph reports:
Family told by NHS: Alzheimer’s is not a ‘health condition’
NHS Worcestershire ruled that Judith Roe, 74, did not qualify for NHS funding because her condition was a “social” rather than “health” problem, even though she was so ill she could not make a cup of tea and regularly left the stove on.
She was forced to sell her £200,000 home to pay her £600-a-week nursing home fees, which would have been funded if she had been categorised correctly. (more…)