A situation in which someone's access to health services or medical treatment is determined by the area of the country in which they live.
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- They called on the Government to make the care of allergy sufferers a full part of the NHS, rather than a postcode lottery.
- Once a beneficial test has been licensed the challenge is to avoid a postcode lottery in its use.
- The parking needs of people with disabilities must not be decided by what is effectively a postcode lottery.
- Patients will always face a postcode lottery for NHS treatment, a Bolton MP claimed.
- Stronger local accountability can be a powerful antidote to the postcode lottery.
- There will also be a drive to eliminate the postcode lottery across the country on the cancer fighting drugs approved by Nice.
- This has led to a postcode lottery over how long couples must wait.
- The postcode lottery of eligibility criteria needs seriously to be examined.
- Couples desperate for children are facing a postcode lottery for fertility treatment in Yorkshire despite new rules about free NHS treatment for all.
- The announcement is the latest part of a government drive to end postcode lotteries of care across the NHS.
- The postcode lottery through which people in different council areas pay widely varying costs for their social service support is to be ended.
- Bereaved parents in Yorkshire face a postcode lottery in standards of investigations into the tragic deaths of their children, experts admitted yesterday.
- Critics say the changes won't make all that much difference to what is a grossly unjust postcode lottery.
- It means there will be a postcode lottery in the prescribing of Herceptin for early-stage breast cancer.
- Teenage mums say Swindon fares well in the postcode lottery that dictates whether girls who fall pregnant receive a decent education.
- Then you play the postcode lottery for treatment.
- Cancer patients in the region are facing a huge postcode lottery for life-saving treatment, the Yorkshire Post can reveal today.
- We want local control yet no postcode lottery.
- The postcode lottery is particularly pronounced in the health service.
- New figures reveal a postcode lottery is governing police responses to 999 calls with Sutton emerging below the London average.