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Rishi Sunak pins leadership hopes on plans to introduce £10 fine for people who miss doctor and hospital appointments, railing against 'healthcare free at the point of misuse'
Patients would at first be given 'benefit of the doubt', with repeat offenders fined Sunak railed against a 'healthcare system that's free at the point of misuse' Penalty payments would save the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds each year Skeptics claim the policy would punish the neediest and create new bureaucracy By Adam Solomons For Mailonline
Published: 01:31 BST, 31 July 2022 | Updated: 01:31 BST, 31 July 2022
Patients will be charged £10 for missing an NHS appointment under a new plan unveiled by Rishi Sunak as part of his campaign to be elected Conservative party leader and Prime Minister.
The ex-Chancellor, 42, said penalty payments are 'the right thing to do when we've got people crying out for treatment'.
First-time offenders would be given 'the benefit of the doubt', Mr Sunak said, with patients who miss numerous appointments facing a punishment fee.
Rishi Sunak (pictured in West Sussex) yesterday used a speech to slam 'woke nonsense'
The proposal, disclosed by the candidate for No 10 in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph , is intended to alleviate NHS costs and discourage no-shows.
He said: 'If we have people who are not showing up and taking those slots away
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