I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
I am not so naive to think that I can make every problem in the health service go away. No minister can. And never will be able to.
I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.
The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.
The goal should be universal, guaranteed, high-quality health care.
I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.
The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
Many sections of our country and many groups of our citizens suffer from diseases the eradication of which are mere matters of administration and moderate expenditure. Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.
When insurance covers everything, no one cares what the their health costs are. Consumers must have some skin in the game.
Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.
I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.
The NHS is something we should put above everything else.
Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.
What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.
My life was transformed by the Labour government of 1945. It was transformative for millions of people like me, you know - education, the health service. It was proof that politics can make life better for people; that a social dream can become a social reality by the power of government.
I'm very straightforward on immigration. The bus is full. We haven't got enough energy, we haven't got enough electricity, we haven't got enough of a health service.
Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.
I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.
I have expressed a very strong view that no health minister on their own can turn the health service around.
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
