Compare To Our NHS Today.

First Published WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2009.

Comparing health care.

In this last week's Costa Blanca News is an article on El Hospital de Torrevieja by one Nuria Perez.
The centre is large, new and incredibly successful. It has completed 53,000 operations since its inception three years ago - the operating theatres work all day - and even on Sundays. {And it IS most certainly lawful 'to do good on the Sabbath!'} 
Just one thing to note for all of those who believe that the NHS is 'the bee's knees'; is the envy of the world; is a sacred cow; is the only way of delivering healthcare and is not an ancient mechanism designed for progress into the 1950s which has just about caught up with the 70s - 
IT HAS NO WAITING LISTS.
When will that happy day arrive in the UK? When will patients' welfare become the principal target of funds and bureaucracy become of decreasing significance?