'Financial experts in Britain have warned that the British government’s austerity measures could force the National Health Service (NHS) to charge patients for various services it now provides for free.

Researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) say the NHS will need an extra £20 billion by 2020 to cope with the rising demand, but the next four years is expected to be the toughest in the past five decades with regards to NHS costs.The demand for the NHS services is rising consistently while its annual budget is expected to remain around £110 billion until 2015.

In order to keep NHS expenses where they are, the government would be obliged to cut other public services by 2.3% each year.'

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