NHS Quotes

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

Religion NHS Thing English Closest Closest Thing

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.

I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.

Dad NHS Background Secretary Firefighter Northern Working-Class Mum

The NHS is one of the most humanitarian acts that has ever been undertaken in peace time.

Time Peace NHS Most Acts Been Ever Humanitarian Undertaken

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

NHS Present System Bit Patients Protecting

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The NHS was hard to deliver, so was the minimum wage. It's time now - we need to have a proper conversation about how much is the individual cost, how much is the burden that we're all going to share together, and how much are we going to put on older adults now versus a future system like national insurance.

I think saving the NHS is a lifetime's work.

Work Think NHS Lifetime Saving I Think

When a Conservative government is presiding over unfair cuts to tax credits, chaos in the NHS and an unnecessary and ideological attack on trade union rights, it is natural that many in the Labour party should be sceptical of Tory talk on devolution - sceptical, even of government deals with Labour-led local authorities.

You can do a lot worse than spend an hour a week singing. We should prescribe choirs on the NHS for anxiety and stress.

You Singing Stress NHS Anxiety Choirs Prescribe Hour Lot Should Spend Than Week Worse

What I want is a strong NHS delivering the highest standards of care anywhere in the world, and that is true to the founding values of the NHS, and I hope that, looking back on my time as health secretary, people can see that, actually, the foundations for that change were laid in the period that I was health secretary.

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.

Love Family Born NHS Scotland I Was Born Grew I Love Up

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

Blind Lost Eye NHS Faced Prospect Saved Sight Going

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.

Health People Service Will Funding Necessary Scottish NHS Also Cannot

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.

You Culture Grateful Service Decision-Making Highly Shared NHS Give Inside Know Move Them

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

Education Beautiful Most Beautiful Apart Army Beautiful Things Britain British NHS About Free Most Things

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

Information NHS Us Our Basis Interaction Patients Presumption Shared Should

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