Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I was born in 1937, and when I was a month old my father collapsed in Stratford High Road with pneumonia and pleurisy. When he was sufficiently recovered, he spent some weeks convalescing, during that time my mother had no income and the last of my parents' money went on paying for an ambulance to bring him home.
Later I remember my father when he was working as an orthopaedic technician, getting off his pushbike, and having heard about the new NHS, greeting my mother with the words "Thank goodness, we shall never have to worry about getting sick again" (What happened to the world my generation built?, G2, 5 June)
So my generation is healthier and living longer thanks to the care we have received throughout our lives from a service run by dedicated clinicians and not run for profit by the cheapest provider. We have heard so much about the excessive "cost" of the NHS, but this belies the truth that in England we spend less per capita on health than most other developed countries.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/06/nhs-stripped-down-derelict-house
Later I remember my father when he was working as an orthopaedic technician, getting off his pushbike, and having heard about the new NHS, greeting my mother with the words "Thank goodness, we shall never have to worry about getting sick again" (What happened to the world my generation built?, G2, 5 June)
So my generation is healthier and living longer thanks to the care we have received throughout our lives from a service run by dedicated clinicians and not run for profit by the cheapest provider. We have heard so much about the excessive "cost" of the NHS, but this belies the truth that in England we spend less per capita on health than most other developed countries.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/06/nhs-stripped-down-derelict-house