System for assessing who needs to pay for NHS care ‘incentivises racial profiling’

System for assessing who needs to pay for NHS care ‘incentivises racial profiling’ The system for assessing who should be asked to pay for NHS services “incentivises racial profiling”, an investigation has found.

A study by the Institute for Public Policy Research found that overstretched NHS staff sometimes racially profile patients in order to determine who is not “ordinarily resident” in the UK, and therefore must pay for their care. The Guardian

See also: 

• Towards true universal care: Reforming the NHS charging system Institute for Public Policy Research