Routine operations for complaints such as varicose veins are being cut back to save the NHS money, leaving patients having to put up with the agonising condition or pay for expensive private treatment. It’s just privatisation by stealth, says Eddie Chaloner, a consultant vascular surgeon at Lewisham Hospital — and once again, it’s the patient who suffers.
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