I watched the programme last night and it was a real eye-opener. I wouldn't not want to be any of those people who have to make those life or death decisions. The whole NHS system is broken..from top to bottom. I don't think throwing more money at the problem will solve anything. As Suzie said, there are far too many people taking  redundancy with huge payoffs, and then going back to work doing the same job. Also, the cost of agency doctors and nurses is astronomical. My sister works for the NHS, assessing patients who are ready to go home. Every working day she is chasing her tail, because the care is not there for just-discharged patients. The home care people are treated like the lowest of the low, and paid peanuts. They should be treated as professionals and paid accordingly. 

Drunks and drug addicts should be left to their own devices....money is wasted on them. Breast implants should not be paid for by the NHS unless they are a necessity after a mastectomy. IVF should not be paid for by the NHS...having a child is a blessing...not a right.

And I do think that we all have a responsibility to look after our own health as far as we can. People who drink too much, eat too much, smoke too much or take drugs should go to the back of the queue...the risks of all these are well known these days. Yes...we all have a right to treatment, but we also have a responsibility to ourselves. 

Health tourists from abroad should not be treated until they have paid up front, or are insured. Nigerian women who fly in to have their babies on the NHS should be sent home...minus baby, until they have paid.

As with every other aspect of life in this country, we have become far to liberal and soft, and the whole world takes advantage.

Also.. we have a very serious crisis in Mental Health care. The number of cases of young people with mental disorders, hearing voices etc is soaring....I do wonder if this is the beginning of the Cannabis time bomb going off. Another result of our soft liberal attitude to drugs in this country.