Quotes & Sayings About Nhs

We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while Labour just use the NHS as a political football. We won't let them; we'll always fight for the NHS. — Andrew Lansley

It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine. — Ruth Rendell

Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse. — Ruth Rendell

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS. — Lucy Powell

People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it's absolutely clear. — Andy Burnham

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity. — David Hockney

I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here. — Alesha Dixon

I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived. — Stephen Hawking

You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never be fragmented, privatised or undermined. I am personally committed to an NHS which gives equal access, and excellent care. — Andrew Lansley

Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us. — Andrew Lansley

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job. — Michael Gove

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020. — Michael Gove

One of the virtues of the NHS ... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it. — Clive James

The promise to use the money we currently send to Brussels and invest it instead on the priorities of the British people - principally in the NHS - and to cut VAT on domestic fuel. With my leadership, it will be delivered. — Michael Gove

If I've learnt anything over the last six years it's that the most important thing is the strength of our economy. That is how we pay for our NHS, how we build schools, how we provide opportunities for people. And I'm in absolutely no doubt that our economy will be stronger if we stay in and will be weaker and at risk if we leave. — David Cameron

I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country. — Helen McCrory

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. — Andrew Lansley

Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges. — Margaret Thatcher

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first. — Andrew Lansley

The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or (Labour Party leader) Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving NHS (National Health Service) ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain. — David Cameron

Do you think that I or anybody else who cares about the NHS would stand by and do nothing if we thought the NHS was going to be privatised in Scotland and its funds were going to be cut? Would we stand back and do nothing without a fight? Of course not. — Gordon Brown

The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. — Nigel Lawson

The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that. — Margaret Thatcher

The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally. — Andrew Lansley

If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you. — Frank Bruno

Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back. — Andrew Lansley

When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS. — Gordon Brown

The NHS cannot be privatised if that's not the will of the Scottish people, and the Scottish health service will have the funding that's necessary if that's also the will of the Scottish people. — Gordon Brown

The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS. — Boris Johnson

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done. — Nick Clegg

Black Knight: "I'm impressed. You even mended the t-shirt."
Faiza: "Mate, you're with the NHS now. — Paul Cornell

You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue. — Liz Kendall

About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped. — Denise Van Outen

Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care. — Andrew Lansley

Was this really the supposed better deal from surrendering our military hospitals in favour of gaining better clinical experience from the NHS? — Stuart Tootal

The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS. — Ruth Rendell

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. — Gordon Brown

The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

The NHS should be proactively using substantial resources across government to intervene and try to deliver positive improvements in people's standards of living. — Andrew Lansley

There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder. — Simon Hoggart

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles. — Frank Dobson

The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms. — Patricia Hewitt

Dr Power stood up. "Because your staff are not components that can be fitted in, or replaced when they are unpredictable, or when they are simply being human. Because our patients are not playing a game called 'business' with profit and loss and winners and losers. Because patients have no choice, but to be patients and it's our privilege to be in a temporary position where we can help them. And, inevitably, when we ourselves fall ill; when we grow old, then we can only hope that we will receive the help we ourselves need in turn. Because that's the reality of life. And not some self-aggrandising game". - Dr Power, speaking in The Good Shepherd — Hugh Greene

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. — Michael Gove

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it. — Donald Berwick

People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk. — Liam Fox

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it — Aneurin Bevan

There's a culture inside the NHS that is highly paternalistic. You know, 'We give them the service and they are grateful.' We have to move to shared decision-making. — Andrew Lansley