How do I … keep the doctor at bay?

The cost of running the health service has ballooned, so here are some ideas – beyond paying your taxes – to keep it fighting fit

When the NHS began in 1948, it cost the modern-day equivalent of about £15bn a year to run. Now that cost stands at £136.7bn and is still rising amid regular predictions that a free-to-use health service will eventually become financially unviable.

So what can you do to ease the financial burden? Here are a few suggestions, some more practical than others.

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from Health & wellbeing | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1TIjqWA
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