Announced today the NHS is rebranding as the NCS

National Corridor Service

   except it isn't funny.  It is very different here.  when I broke my knee the ambulance came in 20 minutes, straight into a cubicle (OK just a curtain between me and the screaming man next door!) Saw a doctor within an hour, two hours was in a room/bed and they operated that night.

 I would have agreed with you Judi but myn experience latterly has not been so rapid. To get an appt to see a Hospital Specialist now there is quite a long wait.  Never used to be this way...