General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Read last week that 3million plus patients had registered with a doctor in the last few years. Doctors numbers are declining and lots more coming up to retirement age so the problem will worsen. I was an NHS child and treated under it for 56 years. I have now been in a different system where it is all free for sixteen years and I have had quite a few treatments. Three minor operations during Covid. Total access to my doctor throughout Covid. I have never waited more than two days to see him. Cataracts removed from both eyes no problem in an ultra modern clinic. Most doctors and specialists are self employed, maintaining their own premises and staff and using hospitals to carry out procedures. They bill the local health authority at pre-arranged rates. Seems to work OK and I stress again no cost to me. We do have to pay a portion of our prescriptions and nothing that is sold over the counter can be supplied on prescription.