Patients should pay for their drugs because people lacking wartime stoicism and with unhealthy lifestyles are pushing the NHS towards collapse. Dr Philip Lee, a GP in Slough, called for a Danish-style system where patients are given a “modest” personal drugs budget and have to pay for extra prescriptions themselves. Dr Lee’s vision was part of a presentation by Free Enterprise Group of Tory MPs on how to tackle Britain’s £1 trillion debt crisis and was featured in the London Evening Standard.