NHS clinicians call for statutory levy on gambling industry

Two senior NHS clinicians have called for a levy on gambling companies to fund harm prevention and treatment. Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic (NPGC), and Dr Matt Gaskell, Clinical Lead for the NHS Northern Gambling Service, voiced their support for a levy on gambling companies, with expenditure to be overseen by an independent health board. In a paper for the Social Market Foundation (SMF) thin...