Weakness of NHS

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6092658/Cruel-and-neglectful-care-of-one-million-NHS-patients-exposed.html

Summary
The National Healthcare Service (NHS) received numerous complaints about its poor service such as poor standards of nursing, neglectful and agonising treatment. Elderly were at times left in pain, in dirty bed clothes with poor hygienic standards, and denied proper food. Plus, some patients even had their operations cancelled repeatedly leading to death in extreme cases. The diagnosis given were also sometimes wrong and there were staff that were poorly trained. The poor attitude of nurses was present in almost all complaints. The services were poor despite investment in the NHS and increasing the number of nurses since 1996.

Commentary
The service provided by the NHS was not up to standards for the a developed country such as Britain. The elderly were treated in an inhumane way, and the needs of the patients were not well taken care off. The elderly were neglected and this projects the quality of the nurses handling them and how they lack the basic values of the profession. Such poor service would create an impression that the quality of healthcare is poor and the government is incapable of creating an acceptable welfare state for its citizens. Poor healthcare would also mean that the British would have to seek better alternative healthcare services abroad, which requires more money. Therefore, the poor in Britain would definitely be at a loss as they would be forced to make the best of the inefficient healthcare in Britain.
The healthcare in Britain has affected the people significantly as the welfare of the patients were poorly taken care off and hence, people cannot rely on the government for quality healthcare service.
However, despite of all the negative remarks made about the healthcare system, 93% of British said it was acceptable. This goes to show there is only a small percentage of citizens who are receiving low quality healthcare services but this is sufficient to spoil the outlook of healthcare in Britain. Such negative remarks may prove detrimental to the public’s trust and view of the Healthcare in time to come. Therefore, the government is trying its very best to reduce such poor services so that the Healthcare could be recognised positively by all it's citizens.