nhs crisis - wheelchair bound pensioner with cancer no longer qualifies for free hospital transport /

Published at 2017-08-23 18:09:34

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A wheelchair-bound pensioner with cancer faces paying thousands on taxis for hospital appointments after current NHS rules said she was ‘independent’. Widow Jennifer Summers,72, has been in a chair since polio struck aged four and free specialist transport to and from hospital after her husband died five years ago. But when she rang to... Read MoreThe post NHS crisis – Wheelchair-bound pensioner with cancer no longer qualifies for free hospital transport appeared first on The London Economic.

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