What Makes Our Country Special

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“Along with the BBC and the monarchy, the (national health) service has become part of the way in which we define what makes our country special”. So wrote Nicholas Timmins in the Financial Times on 30 June 2008.

Mr. Timmins went on to write that the five-year cancer survival rate in Britain is “well down the league table of developed countries”. The NHS also subjected some of its patients “to the humiliation of mixed sex wards”. Hundreds had died from infections contracted in hospital. Twenty per cent of patients say they are not treated with respect or dignity. And nearly twenty five per cent of those working in NHS hospitals say they would rather not have their own health cared for where they work.

Later the same day the news media reported the national disgrace that the amount of spending money (which come from the Duchy of Cornwall) given to the son of the head of state last year increased to £16m.

Special, maybe, but not good


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