Today is the anniversary of the day in July 1948 when the British National Health Service (NHS) came into being. This day in 1948 was the day that the central government stole healthcare settings and resources from the private, charitable, religious, municipal and voluntary sectors and ran them from then on. It was only by pressure from Conservative MP’s at the time that allowed some localism in the provision of healthcare in Britain otherwise every doctors surgery, health centre, hospital or other setting would be under the central control of Whitehall.
Since 1948 the NHS has become the de facto monopoly supplier of healthcare for the majority of Britons. There are many Britons who cannot afford to access private sector care due to the costs of insurance and the difficulty of getting insurance for those with pre-existing or ongoing medical conditions. This pushes the vast majority of Britons into a nationalised healthcare system that is failing them.
Having to deal with a healthcare system that runs along the lines of a nationalised industry with all the waste and inefficiencies that such a system brings is bad enough but successive governments have encouraged Britons to treat the NHS like some sort of deity. We are expected to genuflect and worship as a form of secular religion a healthcare system that not only doesn’t work as it should but often gets worse results for conditions like cancer than other countries with either commercial insurance, state insurance based or fully private systems get. Very rarely does the NHS work as it should. Britons don’t live better and more well because of the NHS, in some cases, like that of my late Mother, they are killed by the NHS.
This day we should not be celebrating the NHS we should be condemning it. We could have had the sort of high quality and affordable healthcare that the residents of Israel, France, the Netherlands, Germany or Singapore get, but we haven’t got that. Instead we’ve got a healthcare system that fails again and again and again. Britain’s healthcare system is all too much like telecommunications in Britain was like in the 1970’s when that was run entirely by the State. Back then there were long waits for connection to the phone system, very expensive calls and the sharing of phone lines with neighbours because the infrastructure could not cope. The NHS these days is all to reminiscent of telecoms back in the bad old days of State ownership.
The Socialists say that the NHS performs badly because of a lack of funds but you could pour the the entirety of Britain’s GDP into the health service and it would still be crap, still be dangerous and still riddled by out there ideologies such as ‘Trans’. The NHS fails not because of poor funding but because it is in the nature of state monopolies to treat the customer like crap and be afflicted by producer capture.
Proponents of the NHS model often point to the United States as an example of an inequitable and expensive healthcare system and in some ways they are correct, there’s a lot wrong with the US healthcare system. However, the American system is not the only alternative to the NHS. Other nations have been able to create affordable and safe healthcare systems without the disadvantages of either the US or the UK systems.
Here’s just a few of the stories that I’ve written about Britain’s National Health Service. Sadly there are many more horror stories about the NHS that you can easily find out there. These pieces of mine are but a small selection of the NHS horror stories that I’ve written about. Read these pieces and understand why I believe that Britain is ill served by the NHS and that Britons deserve better.
NHS employs pervert male nurse
Patients lives endangered by Blackpool NHS hospital
NHS fails expectant mothers
Managers at a Cheshire NHS hospital arrested for gross negligence manslaughter.
Avoidable baby deaths at Nottinghamshire hospital
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2025/06/06/we-in-britain-are-not-hating-the-nhs-nearly-enough/
‘Diversity’ waste in NHS East London
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2025/01/12/oh-look-yet-more-nhs-waste/
NHS not even giving good medical treatment to its own retired professionals
Incompetent surgeon at major children’s hospital
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2024/09/24/another-alleged-nhs-wrongun/
NHS gave patients blood infected with HIV.
NHS hospital removes wrong limb from patient.
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2024/03/20/nhs-removes-wrong-limbs/
NHS failed to treat elderly patient’s wound. The result was that the wound got infected by maggots.
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2023/08/22/from-elsewhere-another-nhs-horror-story/
NHS maternity services are so bad that the NHS spends more on compensating patients than on the services themselves
Man had to wait 40 hours for an ambulance.
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2022/04/27/video-the-nhs-is-still-awful-and-getting-worse/
Poor infection control in the NHS
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2021/12/29/is-this-an-indication-of-poor-infection-control-in-the-nhs/
Poor NHS mental health treatment in Essex linked to numerous suicides
Murder allegation at Lancashire hospital
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2019/04/03/your-caring-nhs-at-work/
The turning of the NHS into some sort of secular deity could end up in a very dark place.
250 patients per week die because of failures with the NHS’s Accident and Emergency medicine sector.
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2024/04/08/see-accident-and-emergency-and-die-unnecessarily/
This is just a small selection of the stories I’ve written or found regarding Britain’s failed healthcare system. Others elsewhere will have their own tales of woe. We all deserve better than what the NHS serves up to Britons.
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