Our stark warning to the Department of Health on the consequences of up-front charging for NHS care. Full response at the link here JCWI Warning to Department of Health and Social Care. 
Summary As with the recent furore about Windrush, these charging regulations will have a number of clear and foreseeable consequences. You have already been warned and provided evidence of all of them, but for your convenience we will summarise them here:
1. There will be systemic discrimination on grounds of race across NHS funding services; 2. Individuals will be wrongly denied urgent care & some will suffer injury or even death as a result; 3. Individuals will be wrongly deterred from accessing care with the same consequences; 4. The exemption system will not be properly understood or applied, exacerbating points 2 & 3 above; 5. Doctors and nurses placed in impossible positions by unclear and self-contradictory guidance will face disciplinary action and lawsuits through no fault…