The British National Health Service is 70 years old this year, and the mainstream media is making much of this anniversary. Perhaps quite rightly so. Yet does the NHS measure up to the eulogies being offered to it by the press, radio and television coverage? What should not be denied are two salient facts about the NHS today, rarely mentioned in these celebratory programmes.
- Firstly, the NHS is now in constant crisis, with NHS staff working under the most serious pressures which are not easing, regardless of the season, and throwing more £billions at it.
I have written about these crises in a series of articles, the first in May 2011 "The NHS Debate (NHS in Crisis 2011)", and the latest in April 2018, "NHS in Crisis. Summer 2018". As I have long argued, the reason for this ongoing crisis concerns the failure of conventional medicine, to which the NHS is now totally committed.
- Secondly, chronic disease has risen to epidemic levels, and has continued doing so ever since the inauguration of free health care (with all its free drugs and vaccines) available through the NHS.
I have written about the rise of chronic disease extensively in my e-book "The Failure of Conventional Medicine", and in particular the chapter entitled "Epidemics of Chronic Disease". Here I have provided some basic statistics about how disease has risen since the NHS began to provide patients with an unrestricted access to pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. Diseases such as Allergy, Dementia, Arthritis, Asthma, ADHD, Autism, Cancer, Cardiovascular disease, ME (Chronic Fatigue), COPD, Diabetes, Irritable Bowel, Mental Health, MS, Osteoporosis, and many more have risen dramatically, and continue to do so.
At the same time, many 'new' diseases have surfaced, a plethora of autoimmune diseases, and a multiplicity of 'strange' and unexplained conditions that appear to strike down fit and healthy babies and infants with serious neurological conditions, leading to severe, often lethal damage.
At the same time, many 'new' diseases have surfaced, a plethora of autoimmune diseases, and a multiplicity of 'strange' and unexplained conditions that appear to strike down fit and healthy babies and infants with serious neurological conditions, leading to severe, often lethal damage.
I have regularly argued in this blog that the usual excuses made by conventional medicine for both these situation are just not viable.
- The NHS is not under-resourced. But it does spend all it's money on one type of medicine, dominated entirely by pharmaceutical drugs. It is, without question, the most ineffective, the most dangerous, and the most expensive form of medicine available.
- Nor does an 'ageing population' explain the overwhelming NHS workload. People of every age group are sicker now than before. Children and adults are now suffering from diseases once associated almost exclusively with old age, including cancer, dementia, and many others.
So perhaps it is right to celebrate the implementation of one of the two main principles of the NHS - a health service free to all at the point of need. The British NHS is widely admired because it (almost) meets this fundamental principle. No-one has to go without treatment because they cannot afford to pay for it.
Except that this is no longer so!
Unfortunately, what seems to have been forgotten is that there was originally a second principle, rarely mentioned in these celebratory programme. In 1948 the NHS was established to offer patients 'the best medicine available'. Now the NHS offers one kind of medicine, a medicine based on pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines that are known to cause 'side effects', which is a euphemism for causing patient harm, often serious harm, often serious disease, and often even death to patients in receipt of them.
Other medical therapies are barred, including Homeopathy, the preferred medicine of Anauren Bevan, the founder of the NHS. What little has been spent on this therapy has recently been banned by the NHS, a gratuitous strike against patient choice, and health freedom.
What this means is that the NHS is no longer of value to me, and to the tens of thousands of other people who wish to be treated with this effective, safe and inexpensive therapy.
I am now in contact with several people who find themselves in this position, people who rely on homeopathy to treat their condition, but who can no longer obtain it because they do not have the money to pay for it, privately.
The NHS now denies people the treatment of their choice, homeopathy, and other forms of alternative therapy. It has become a monopoly. If a patient needs treatment they can have it, free - as long as it is conventional treatment based on pharmaceutical drugs.
So for many people, an increasing number of people, who do not want to subject themselves to the 'side effects' of NHS treatment, their choice has been removed. They can no longer have the treatment of choice, what they consider to be 'the best available treatment'.
Other medical therapies are barred, including Homeopathy, the preferred medicine of Anauren Bevan, the founder of the NHS. What little has been spent on this therapy has recently been banned by the NHS, a gratuitous strike against patient choice, and health freedom.
What this means is that the NHS is no longer of value to me, and to the tens of thousands of other people who wish to be treated with this effective, safe and inexpensive therapy.
I am now in contact with several people who find themselves in this position, people who rely on homeopathy to treat their condition, but who can no longer obtain it because they do not have the money to pay for it, privately.
The NHS now denies people the treatment of their choice, homeopathy, and other forms of alternative therapy. It has become a monopoly. If a patient needs treatment they can have it, free - as long as it is conventional treatment based on pharmaceutical drugs.
So for many people, an increasing number of people, who do not want to subject themselves to the 'side effects' of NHS treatment, their choice has been removed. They can no longer have the treatment of choice, what they consider to be 'the best available treatment'.
So sadly, for many of us, the British NHS is no longer something to celebrate
