Top 42 Quotes About The Nhs
#1. 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
#2. The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.
Nigel Lawson
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it
Aneurin Bevan
#11. 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
#13. Black Knight: "I'm impressed. You even mended the t-shirt."
Faiza: "Mate, you're with the NHS now.
Paul Cornell
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.
Andrew Lansley
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.
Michael Gove
#22. 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
#23. It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.
Ruth Rendell
#24. Was this really the supposed better deal from surrendering our military hospitals in favour of gaining better clinical experience from the NHS?
Stuart Tootal
#25. 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
#26. When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.
Gordon Brown
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.
Liam Fox
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.
Frank Dobson
#41. Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.
Margaret Thatcher
#42. 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
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