The NHS makes people proud to be British but one in five has been forced to go private, suggests a survey of more than 4,000 adults in the UK.
Too many are "let down every day by our health and care services," said the charity's director, Julian McCrae.The researchers found 77% of the people questioned were proud of the NHS.21% had been forced to go private because NHS treatment was unavailableAmong people from ethnic minorities, 22% said they or a loved one had experienced racism when seeking treatment.
Floss Salter, 20, from Leicestershire, who was born with cerebral palsy and needs regular care from a physiotherapist, found that despite years of NHS treatment as a child, she had to begin the process of finding the care she needed all over again, when she turned 18.
There should be a tax incentive to encourage more to go private, thereby taking the pressure off the NHS.
The NHS does a job not particularly efficiently. Have been told by both French and Poles that their health service is better. Japanese looks good. Sliding scale of payments depending on your wealth. Really will have to go that direction in the future I feel.
It's the world health service that's the problem, no nhs number, no treatment.
I was forced to go private because the wait time (which used to be 6 weeks) went to 18 months for the NHS specialist. I had to pay £1800+ for private treatment and was seen the same day… private health insurance wouldn’t pay for it as it was existing condition.
When the propaganda starts, you know where things are heading. Either start petitioning in your local constituency to force by-elections or lose the NHS and pay £1000's a month for private health insurance. Don't say you weren't warned!!! The choice is yours. JustSaying
It's called desperation, not preference.
to help with backlog, privateer support with a limited time agenda.
Maybe over funded NHS can't cope with demand. Due to migrant pressure and silly illness syndrome. Employ everyone in the universe; in a free world we pay for. 1 in 5 go private as know they will never be treated. Wrong colour maybe; gov focus on making it free for the world?
If I hadn’t have gone private I would have been dead by now
No one asked me or any of my friends and family, so I call you out to prove the results of this 'survey'. You can't though because you're lying and saying what BorisJohnson and his useless government tell you to say
Isn’t this what the government wants, us all to pay for healthcare. Working in their favour as planned I expect
Because you have to wait months to a see a specialist in a lot cases & then months upon months for an op, that was pre pandemic. Private gets you seen and operated on within weeks. Every time someone goes private, it’s 1 less patient for the NHS to have on their waiting list.
Surely the people who can afford to pay should resulting in less pressure on the nhs - paying your way should not be seen as a criticism but a responsibility
NHS is way overrated. The NHS is full of overpaid lazy staff.
NHS it's collapse and can't cope. Waiting lists at record high. More people will have to go private
Sadly true. The NHS is not holding together.
I in 5 can afford it, but a person on low wage cannot, this is just making a two level service, or it will push away free care so poor suffer!
One in five rich enough to do it , or have no choice due to tory cuts, waiting for private sector can help with back log oh they are cheaper lets have health insurance more cost effective than expensive NHS lets run it down and let poor have it , sell off hospitals
I love the NHS, but having private medical insurance is the best thing I've ever done.
The NHS is pure dogshit. 'Does its best with resources available' 🤣🤣 More hokum. It's completely unfit for purpose, should be dismantled & re-engineered piece by piece to get it operating properly again. Start with an enormous cull of management & bloated overpriced contracts
Greater Ethiopia Poverty and Funeral of the enemy, It starts with itself and ends with itself. Interference in Ethiopian affairs,It is useless. Ethiopians cannot be separated, When I touch the north, the south will not be silent. When I touch Oromo, the other is not silent.
They won't get thank you from me, they always make big on the good treatment, tell us more about the bad treatment, Always wanting more money, there will never be enough, so much gets wasted.
Because wait times are ridiculous
I’m not proud of the NHS. Some staff do a good job, however the system given more money just hires more expensive managers. Meanwhile… Millions untreated Millions undiagnosed System bursting at the seams and woefully inefficient.
Stop gaslighting the NHS . The word “but” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your headline trying to link two findings which are not related. Try this headline instead; One in five go private as the NHS remains under pressure from Covid and underfunding.
People who think usurping or forfeiting self-actualising and self-sufficiency freedom is a good medical narrative should seek living accommodations in government incarceration facilities.
What is so distressing, there would be no private medical service had the NHS not trained most staff. Once trained by the NHS anyone leaving for whatever reason should pay back the cost of their training. Salary should be docked monthly to build up an adequate fund.
One in 5 forced to go Private and still have to pay full National Insurance Contributions.
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