Many, many happy returns also to our NHS on its 60th Birthday.The National Health Service (NHS)with "free health care for all" officially began on Saturday 5 July 1948.
The UNISON banner is from St Georges Hospital branch, Wandsworth with the picture of South Wales miners son, Aneurin "Nye" Bevan.
Nye was the Labour Party Minister of health with responsibility for the formation of the NHS.
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I have used and still use the NHS, but since Blair came to power to get treatment these days you need large pockets, last year I had to pay to see a heart specialist he would not take on anymore NHS patients cost £250. I had to pay to have an MRI scan because the NHS waiting list was two years long, I had it in three weeks when I paid £560 at a BUPA hospital who then used the NHS scanner, do not forget this was through a consultant treating me under the NHS.
Last year my grandson had to have all his teeth removed he was nine because he had never seen an NHS dentist, I could not afford to have his teeth done private it would have cost £9,000.
My wife is waiting to have her shoulder unfrozen we have been waiting now three years for this, but she is not on the waiting list until she is seen by a consultant, thats three years, I've just paid £150 she See's him next week for an injection into the shoulder which will cost me £120.
The NHS is free my arse.
I'm sorry but I just don't believe any of what Robert has written. First of all, your grandson. I accept its difficult to find NHS dentists, but not impossible - and as for having all his teeth taken out!! I have two children aged 14 and ten and while they have an NHS dentist all she has ever done is look in their mouths and they haven't had a single filling stil less a flipping tooth out - so it would suggest it had a lot more to do with not looking after your teeth than not having a dentist. Do we expect to take no responsibility for ourselves and then sit back and attack the NHS?
Nor do I believe the tales about waiting lists of two or three years long - this sounds more like an advert for BUPA
Totally false claim Robert as a doctor in the NHS this would not happen...unless you choice to go private
and the Tories privatised dentral services and would privatise the NHS
Well said leftygirl and anon
I have mostly given up responding to “Roberts” comments since he refuses to identify himself. The NHS is not perfect and needs to further evolve and reform.
However, my wider family have depended on the NHS all their lives and have never had to pay a penny for health care(apart from dentist and prescriptions). Personally, I had a (non-urgent) CAT scan this year and I waited about 4 weeks. Two years wait? You are of course talking nonsense Robert.
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