Just to balance downright incorrect propaganda on other parts of the web...

I had both my children in NHS hospitals.  I had easy births both times and friendly, helpful nurses.

I had an emergency appendix operation the same day that my doctor referred me to hospital after I had a pain in my side.

I had radiotherapy for my Dupuytren's Contracture (I had to argue for it, but it was a treatment unknown in the UK at that time and the system eventually took on board the German research and gave me what I requested)

I've had nothing but friendly, effective help for recent 'female' problems.

I get medication for my asthma at a price I could afford even when my husband was out of work.

I've just had an MRI to investigate the causes of my ongoing vertigo and I'm seeing the specialist again next week.

My husband's dislocated his patella three times (which is incredibly painful) and had plaster, physiotherapy, etc. on the NHS (not forgetting the ambulances).

We'd better not forget treatment for concussion, visits to casualty with severe asthma, health checkups, an upcoming eye operation and other things that I'm sure will happen to the family in years to come.

For part of our lives, we had medical insurance as a job perk. All of the things I've listed above were treated on the NHS.

Do I love the NHS?

You bet I do.