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DO you know how much procedures on the NHS really cost? New research suggests the British public is grossly ignorant about the real price of medical care.

 

The National Health Report 2015 was launched today and figure show we haven't got a clue about how much procedures are really costing the NHS.

The report, compiled by mutual health and wellbeing provider Benenden, questioned 4,000 people across the UK asking them to put a cost to some common procedures and treatments. 

Ranging from natural child birth to liver transplants, the survey asked people to guess the cost of having this done with the National Health Service footing the bill. 

Almost half of people believe it costs less than £500 for women to have a natural birth in hospital, without any complications. 

 

Shockingly, the true figure is more like £1,824. Would people think twice about rushing to hospital if they knew how much it cost? 

And when it came to judging the cost of procedures and treatments, liver transplants were estimated to cost £12,279 per operation, when in fact the true cost is £70,000. 

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Commenting on the findings of the report, Medical Director of Benenden, Dr John Giles, said: "It comes as no surprise that the public has a staggering and destructive ignorance regarding the cost of treatments on the NHS. 

 

"As a nation we have lost touch with the role we should play in our own health and wellbeing, expecting the NHS to pick up the pieces."

He added: "We are happy to point the finger when it comes to saying who doesn’t deserve treatment, but we take little responsibility on the individual impact we are all having on the NHS, whether that is through poor lifestyle choices, exaggerating symptoms or having an unfair sense of entitlement to the NHS."

Seventy five per cent of those questioned admitted they didn’t consider the cost of a procedure or worry that the free treatment they were receiving could be taking treatment away from someone in greater need.