Notwithstanding that the last Labour government brought in The Health Act 1999 which paved the way for more private provision for NHS patients.

Or indeed that most of the NHS care, 70% of all appointments to see a healthcare professional, has been, since 1948, using NHS funds to see a private contractor who runs a business with profit.

ie. Your GP.

There is a lot wrong with The NHS, but a lot right and in some ways getting better, in some ways getting sadly worse.

I just wish that people would stop making vulnerable people feel even more vulnerable and scared by getting a giggle out of performing scare stories that both miss the point, glaze over facts and feed uncertainty.

This government has got a lot wrong with their reforms of The NHS, but the cuts, (£20B) and PFI were a legacy from being enacted by good old socialist Broon. I was proud to lead an NHS trust as Chairman under the years of investment under the last government. but saddened when the same government squandered many of the gains with arbitrary redesign and self defeating targets. I may not always agree with where the investment is coming from and I may fear for the financial future of government liabilities, but the NHS services have had more investment and overhaul over the last two governments than ever, and despite the failures such as Mid Staffs and others, I would rather be a patient now than the last time the government of the day sang The Red Flag at conferences...

Funny how people ask us not to believe what we read in The Sun but at the same time treat misrepresentation of facts in the name of entertainment as OK.

Sorry, I forgot. It is socialist so doesn't have to follow the same rules as they blame Tories for not following... being neither, I can at least dismiss both sides as pedlars of withering drivel.