Don't write off the NHS - The Guardian 25th August 2007

The service's reputation has been hurt this week, but that's no reason to abandon Bevan's baby The NHS is the envy of the world, we're told, but we have a better chance of dying of cancer than our neighbours in France, Germany, Sweden, Iceland or even Poland, and if you are at high risk for stroke you might like to think about emigrating. Two reports this week, and they were not the flimsy scaremongering variety but from medical heavyweights, will have given the Department of Health a collective headache and made the rest of us justifiably twitchy.

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