Experience with the NHS

[DONNA1458]

Has your experience with the NHS service been good or bad?

[janbee]

I must be very fortunate. My experiences have always been good.

[China Doll]

Well I've worked for it for the best part of five years now so generally mine are quite good. Unfortunately when things do go wrong in the NHS they usually go quite wrong, nature of the beast and all that.

[jackthehat]

It gets the highest possible praise from me..............:o) And I am only a 'customer'.

[sqad617]

What are you comparing it to ?

[Ethel]

Very good, thank you for asking.

[sqad617]

Varies form region to region......in my opinion varies from excellent, to average, very average, to totally unacceptable verging on life threatening.

[marval]

I have had nothing but a good experience from the NHS, lucky me.

[wolf63]

I have had nothing but good experiences from the NHS.

When my mother died her GP even visited my dad to see if he was okay - even though my dad went to a differnet practice. It was such a nice thought and my dad really appreciated the gesture.

[Nannyjillx2]

Yes on the whole very positive especially the care from my GP

[daffy654]

My GP is not much use but whenever I have had hospital treatment it has been (on the whole) very good!

[albaqwerty]

all good experiences with the nhs...from a&e to general stuff. 10 out of 10 from me :D

[Mr Veritas]

As I have reached the grand old age of 86,I think that (thanks to some help from the NHS) they must be doing their job well.
Having been aged 25 before the NHS started I may be one of the few persons on AB who can remember what is was like pre~NHS,and I wouldn't want to go back there.

Many members of my family died,or suffered because we couldn't afford to call out the doctor,and while I realise that the NHS may be far from perfect it's a whole lot better than pre 1948

[Scarlett]

As a customer- in hospital, it has been okay treatment -wise. But at the time I resented the fact that the nurses sat outside the ward for hours on end at their station when they could have been in the ward, talking to the poor old ladies on their last lonely legs. Some even had problems eating and taking medicine. I was there helping them and I wa a patient! It should have been the nurses.

[Prudentia]

I suffered a heart attack in Jan 2008, my treatment in our local NHS hospital was exemplary, I can afford to pay privately but I doubt that if I had I would have got better treatment. Prudentia xxx

[mumof3angels]

My daughter needed a lot of hospital treatment in the first 3 1/2 yrs of her life and we could not have had better treatment if we had gone private. She still need checkups every yr and she still sees the same consultant who saw her the very first time 12 yrs ago. I can't praise the hospital enough!!

[sleepy1j]

very good had a week in hospital the other week and was very well looked after .

[tamborine]

My OH always had private treatment & was poorly treated; left to fend alone in filthy room with sparse nursing attendance & brief doctor visits. Cost �52k for 3weeks. (Nurses often looking for tips & bribes).

NHS ward, with superb matron was spick & span. Continual care and constant attention. Cost free for 3weeks. (Nurses never mention tips).

[Ice.Maiden]

Went into hospital privately once, and discovered a huge meat fly crawling underneath some lettuce! It put me off all food in there from that moment on - but as for treatment, I don't think there's a lot of difference. the same doctors who work in hospitals'll do private work as well, and i've never had any complaints about treatment either way.