NHS

So the NHS will be short of £5 billion in total next year, I am not surprised at that as the government has been cutting and cutting the NHS budget year on year, the promise that the NHS will always be free at first contact is not sustainable, GP's are taking a massive hit to their budgets, somewhere like 25%, with an increase of patients many from Europe and of course the health tourists, visits to a GP cost far more than you might6 guess, you have to take into account the fact that more patients mean more staff to deal with them, a home visit on occasions is costing the GP as what he gets for the visit often does not cover the cost of the petrol used for the visit, by moving different specialities out into the community means that the hospital budget suffers, if this is allowed to carry on you will have to get yourself health insurance because the NHS is not sustainable, the government is not going to support the NHS more than it is now, so the cost of inflation, moving specialities out of the hospital, having to cope with the massive influx of Europeans that overwhelm the A&E departments, means less and less in the budget, I see the day when hospitals have to become privately run operations charging the true cost of treatment, can you afford to pay? I think not so if you are able I would get insurance soon it might be too late later on, the NHS is a great idea but in today's day and age we can't afford it.