Top 103 Nhs Quotes & Sayings

From the immediate abandonment of the promise of an extra £350m for the NHS, the history of Brexit is already littered with discarded and unfulfillable promises.

Corbyn Labour's budget numbers simply don't add up on the NHS and the economy.

The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.

If there is a moment when it is possible to intervene in the chaotic life of a homeless person, it is when they turn up as an NHS patient.

All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they've all undermined it.

People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it’s absolutely clear.

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

There's a culture inside the NHS that is highly paternalistic. You know, 'We give them the service and they are grateful.' We have to move to shared decision-making.

I wouldnt be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

I think saving the NHS is a lifetime's work.

To properly fund the NHS, we must ALL chip in. As a fully paid U.K. tax resident since 1985, I'd be proud to contribute to that.

The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

As someone who is a dedicated fan of the NHS, I'm extremely worried, I think its a very precious thing that needs to be nurtured, looked after.

If you don't protect the NHS, you're going to have health ghettoes where people can't get treated.

It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.

I want to see prisoners getting support that is every bit as good as that which they would receive from the NHS in the community.

I've been making the NHS's case that we need significant and sustainable funding increases to meet the demographic challenges we face, and the prime minister completely appreciates that.

The NHS is something we should put above everything else.

I can only look at what Labour has done to the NHS here in Wales and it's not a good story. That includes on education as well.

I get involved in lots of Twitter spats with lots of people when I think they're not being fair about the progress the NHS is making.

The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.

What I want is a strong NHS delivering the highest standards of care anywhere in the world, and that is true to the founding values of the NHS, and I hope that, looking back on my time as health secretary, people can see that, actually, the foundations for that change were laid in the period that I was health secretary.

Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back.

I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.

I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.

Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

The idea of the NHS took root in the political imagination less as an example of social entitlement's victory over private provision, and more as the embodiment of brand Britain.

We have a workforce crisis across the NHS with around 100,000 vacancies.

The NHS is one of the most humanitarian acts that has ever been undertaken in peace time.

If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.

Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.

It's so important that people know there was a time before the NHS. It makes them appreciate it more.

Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.

Labour is the party of the NHS and the environment and fighting for better workplace and civic rights for working men and women.

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

I'm all right if the NHS gets privatized. I'll just spit two bars, get a bit of money and go fix my ribs.

I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never be fragmented, privatised or undermined. I am personally committed to an NHS which gives equal access, and excellent care.

My sister told me: 'You need to have a baby so that you've got someone to look after you when you're old.' And I was like: 'Hang on - I thought that's what the NHS was for? Unless the NHS is that screwed by the time I'm old, you've literally had to give birth to your own medical professional.'

Do you think that I or anybody else who cares about the NHS would stand by and do nothing if we thought the NHS was going to be privatised in Scotland and its funds were going to be cut? Would we stand back and do nothing without a fight? Of course not.

The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS.

I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.

Trade is critical to us all - it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong.

You can do a lot worse than spend an hour a week singing. We should prescribe choirs on the NHS for anxiety and stress.

My personal interest in IVF led me to author two reports into the availability of treatment on the NHS.

People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.

The NHS should be proactively using substantial resources across government to intervene and try to deliver positive improvements in people's standards of living.

We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while Labour just use the NHS as a political football. We won't let them; we'll always fight for the NHS.

Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It's a miracle, it is magic.

Military nurses have worked alongside their NHS colleagues across the United Kingdom, using the skills learnt in conflict in the battle against COVID.

You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.

I took for granted that we have free healthcare. But I have realised what the NHS does, and the people within it who keep it moving, the number of hours they are doing.