I do not think that this answers the question. It also does not need to be in the EU. Do I have the option to get a second opinion from a doctor in Brazil or the US or Russia?
> But contrary to what you seemed to be implying
I never implied that, not sure where you got that from. I find this attack unwarranted.
Where does the idea that people are prevented from leaving the country for private healthcare originate? (It would be rare, as there's a good private healthcare system in Britain anyway. The opposite is much more common: the UK is a common choice for private healthcare for rich people in the Middle East.)
From this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25894454
The closest thing I can think of is a cannabis medicine, which isn't available in the UK, but the children involved have been able to go to the Netherlands for it. The trouble was when their parents brought the medicine back.
So, I assume it's American anti-public-healthcare fake news.
5 (UK Police-induced deaths including Terrorists and the like) times 5 is not 1000.
> You can't just change GP, you have to do some bureaucratic BS first afaik.
The website I linked says change GP, and it's not that difficult to do in my experience (It's still annoyingly non-automated).
> Do you have the option to leave the country in order to get a second opinion from a doctor in the EU?
Practically I think it would arguably be malpractice if your GP ignored you if you did of your own accord, but with Brexit I genuinely don't know what the framework is anymore.
https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/healthcare-abroad/going-abr...
But contrary to what you seemed to be implying they don't stop you from doing that or paying for it yourself.
The NHS is not without flaws, and is arguably (I would certainly argue) empirically worse than other alternatives in Europe, but all this death-panel crap is literally just regurgitated anti-Obamacare talking points from a decade ago with almost no relevance to the ills actually plaguing single-payer healthcare.