I make no secret of the fact that I despise the National Health Service. Whilst I accept that there may well be those working within it who are decent individuals who want to provide decent care for their patients, I also find it impossible to escape from the fact that having the state running and also funding healthcare has been and continues to be a disaster. What we have in the NHS is a prime example of how a nationalised industry and one where there is very little competition for the mass market of potential customers, ends up being run for the benefit of those who work in it and who run it, rather than for the benefit of customers.

We also have a health service that is overtly politically controlled and which reacts not to clinical need but to political imperatives. When the customer of the NHS, a patient, asks the NHS to do something for them then they are subjected to delay, obfuscation and often downright hostility from NHS staff. However when the government demands that the NHS do something, such as turn from being a general health service in to a wholly covid only one and screw all those Britons who need non covid related healthcare, the NHS not only jumps to obey but asks ‘how high should we jump?’

We also have a healthcare system in the form of the NHS that jumps on any and all progressive bandwagons and spends money on these non-essentials that should and could be spent on the healthcare of the patients. The NHS supporting ‘pronoun day’ and claiming that their priorities are to make the NHS carbon neutral are but two of the areas of non core expenditure and activity that help to make the NHS the disaster that it has become.

I have two stories today that should convince any Briton with more than half the normal level of functioning braincells that the NHS is not an entity that should be cheered or clapped or otherwise celebrated. On the contrary, the NHS should be killed off and replaced with something better. The healthcare of Britons should be via either an insurance based system as it was intended to be in the first place and funded by National Insurance, or for there to be a separation from the government with the government funding healthcare but the hospitals themselves being run by private companies, charities, religious organisations or even local authorities.

Here’s the first story from Ambush Predator. The NHS, or elements within it, is proposing that they cut General Practitioner services even more than they have done already for non-covid patients and concentrate almost entirely on mass vaccination. So bang goes any chance any Briton might have to get any other ailments either diagnosed or treated.

Ambush Predator said:

Can they ‘scale it back’ more than they already have? 

And given they are currently not providing the service they are paid for, why are they taking on this tas…

Ambush Predator then went on to reveal that these GP’s who are closing their doors to everything but covid, will be paid £12.58 for each vaccination. Ker-ching! A nice little earner for doing basically sod all and not having to deal with the normal level of patients.

The next story comes from Sky News and is about an ongoing investigation into the deaths of babies at an NHS hospital. A nurse at the hospital, the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire, has been charged with murder as part of the investigation.

Sky News said:

A nurse has been charged with eight counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder in connection with baby deaths at a hospital in Cheshire.

Lucy Letby, 30, is due to appear at Warrington Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, a spokesman for Cheshire police said.

A statement from the force said Letby had been charged following an ongoing investigation into a number of baby deaths and non-fatal collapses on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Now of course Ms Letby needs to be treated as innocent until proven guilty as anybody who is accused of an offence should be but this is neither the first nor will it be the last case where a person placed in a position of care over patients in the NHS has either been convicted of or accused of killing patients. There is of course the case of Dr Harold Shipman, Britain’s most prolific serial killer who murdered elderly patients for both the kick of doing so and for financial gain. Then there is the Beverly Allit case where Allit, a nurse at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire murdered four babies and attempted to murder others over a 59 day period in 1991. In addition to these cases we have to add in the other NHS scandals such as Stafford Hospital where dehydrated patients in desperation started to drink out of flower vases in a hospital that was woefully and cruelly mismanaged. The list of NHS scandals where patients have been harmed or killed either deliberately or by piss poor care is huge and is widespread across the country.

Sky News on the subject of the Letby case quoted the Crown Prosecution Service as saying:

“The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Cheshire Police to charge a healthcare professional with murder in connection with an ongoing investigation into a number of baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

“Lucy Letby, of Arran Avenue, Hereford, is facing eight charges of murder and 10 charges of attempted murder. The charges relate to the period of June 2015 to June 2016.

“The 30-year-old was re-arrested on Tuesday, 10 November, and has since subsequently been charged.

“She has been held in custody and is due to appear at Warrington Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 12 November.”

Of course I do not want to speculate on the outcome of this case but it appears that the CPS has at least got the view that there is sufficient evidence for the Crown to charge Letby.

It’s not just the cases listed above that have made me despise the NHS, it is seeing friends and family treated appallingly by it. I believe that all British subjects should be covered by some form of healthcare provision, but the NHS has shown that having government run healthcare is the worst way to do that. We have ended up with a healthcare service that is not fit for any purpose other than

featherbedding staff, wasting money on complete bollocks and treating its customers as if they were dogshit on a person’s shoe.

I will not applaud the NHS, on the contrary I want more Britons to ask awkward questions about an entity that has been fashioned by both media and government into some form of debased national secular religion. The NHS is not the friend of Britons and the more that we realise that and demand something better than what we are getting from the NHS, then the quicker that Britons will get the decent healthcare system that we both deserve and which we pay for through our taxes.