quotes about Nhs
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I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.
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Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.
-- Andrew LansleySource : "An open, transparent NHS is a safer NHS" by Andrew Lansley, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.
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People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it’s absolutely clear.
-- Andy Burnham -
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
-- Aneurin Bevan -
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One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.
-- Clive James -
I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.
-- Donald BerwickSource : Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons
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If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.
-- Frank Bruno -
The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.
-- Frank Dobson -
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One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
-- John Lydon -
People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.
-- Liam Fox -
It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
-- Lucy PowellSource : "Labour created the NHS and has safeguarded its future" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.
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There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.
-- Simon HoggartSource : "Why the American right make me sick" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.
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The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor -
You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.
-- Liz Kendall -
I feel like awareness needs to grow. It's becoming a very common thing. I think we have a very strong NHS and healthcare system that needs more support through all this political nonsense that we're going through.
-- John NewmanSource : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk