- Staff Notice
The NHS is a lumbering most inefficient organisation yet it is the best we have got, and admired worldwide. Treatment is available that does not depend on the ability to pay
Critics forget what it was like before it was created
Under the Tories for the past ten years it has been badly underfunded which has led to the present difficulties, a situation Johnson has recognised and promised massive investment to rectify
Don't start that "It's all the Tories' fault again. We've already had this argument. Labour would have put less money into the NHS after the 2010 government came to power, and they admitted this at the time.
The NHS has been getting steadily worse over the years under both political parties. The problem is, we cannot continue to afford to put more and more money into it. Root and branch reform is long overdue, but the problem is how to go about it.
Politicisation of this dilemma is not wanted by the NHS staff themselves on the whole, they just want the whole system to work better, as do most people. Despite what you say, Bryan, it is no longer the envy of the world. We need to regain that status instead of simply watching the whole thing decay.
Incidentally, I did say in my post that it needs to continue to be free at the point of delivery. Most people are agreed on that.