The NHS keeps being attacked in media articles which is making it look bad. Commercial health care providers have powerful lawyers which sue the media if THEIR failures are exposesd.

The result is that we all get an unfairly negative impression of the NHS.
Go in any commercial hospital and you’ll see the same dirt, the same infdefficiency as in the NHS – and both have good dedicated work as well.

Yes we need to go back to in-house cleaning so it is highly motivated work. It’s cleaners and aides that need better recognition not nurses, because cleanliness of ward and patient, and simple nursing care, is the mainstay of healthcazre. We need ward teams that work together to be proud of what they do.
Nurses need solid recognition for NURSING not for being junior doctors with degrees. Degrees don’t train in compassion and practicality. The paper qualifications mania is part of commercialisation: bean counting instead of looking at people skills and domestic skills.

We need to break the strangelehold of the drugs companies. Many conditions have remedies that do not involve drugs – a steam inhaler is far better than antibiotics for chest infection for example. But our doctors are locked into drug based care with all its expense and side effects.
GPs must be freed of their dependency on drugs companies.

Expensive consultations must STOP. They are not structured to be accountable for their results, and when it’s later all in a mess the consultants are long gone with the money spent.

A lot of the NHS system needs to be rolled back to the far better systems of 30 years ago. Health is not a supermarket and we are not “customers” we are PATIENTS. Doctors are not sales assistants either.

But with all its faults – which are mainly recently acquired under commercial influences – the NHS is the pride of Britain. Guard it, keep it, polish it – and keep the greed of commerce OUT.