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Two Years On, NHS Hospitals Are Still Demanding Some Patients Pay Upfront for Life Saving Treatment
by Izzi Whelan
Hostile environment policies have been widely condemned as racist and brutal, with the upfront charging of migrants - including people with cancer and pregnant women - at NHS hospitals considered one of the gravest injustices of all. Yet two years after the policy was introduced, and despite the Windrush scandal, vulnerable people are still dying after having been denied life saving treatment, writes medical student Izzi Whelan.

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