General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

When the NHS was founded the Labour government insisted that the private alternative should still be open to the British people.
Many, if not most,of the top surgeons in the NHS supplement their income with private work. If that top up wasn’t available some would be tempted with the offers of more lucrative work overseas. It must be better to have a top surgeon for three quarters of his time in the NHS than no surgeon at all.