Nhs Quotes

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Fighting, Long, Lasts

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Quality, Today, Treatment

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

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Miracle, Magic, Superpower

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• 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.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Crazy, Doctors, Nurse

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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

  Michael Gove

  Jobs, Government, People

  "Brexit live: Michael Gove promises NHS extra £100m a week by 2020 in leadership bid launch" by Jessica Elgot, Mark Tran and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2016.

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• 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.

  Clive James

  Worry, Classic, Moments

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• I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

  Donald Berwick

  Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

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

  John Lydon

  Beautiful, Army, Free Education

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

  Liz Kendall

  Migrants, Queues, Behinds

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Party, Health

  "Cameron challenged on Labour claim". www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. March 30, 2015.

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• 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.

  David Hockney

  Years, People, Humanity

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• No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Party, Heart, Hatred

  Speech at Manchester, 4 July 1948, in The Times 5 July 1948

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• 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.

  Frank Bruno

  People, Focus, Brain

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• 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.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Issues, Priorities, Ankles

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• The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Principles, Adequate, Safe

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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

  Frank Dobson

  Patient, Bits, Shambles

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• I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.

  Alesha Dixon

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

  Michael Gove

  Important, Want, Public Service

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I feel like awareness needs to grow. It's becoming a very common thing. I think we have a very strong NHS and healthcare system that needs more support through all this political nonsense that we're going through.

  John Newman

  Strong, Thinking, Support

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Conservative, Clear

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• The promise to use the money we currently send to Brussels and invest it instead on the priorities of the British people - principally in the NHS - and to cut VAT on domestic fuel. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

  Michael Gove

  Cutting, People, Priorities

  "Brexit live: Michael Gove promises NHS extra £100m a week by 2020 in leadership bid launch" by Jessica Elgot, Mark Tran and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2016.

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• I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

  Nick Clegg

  Reform, Done, Care

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• 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.

  Andy Burnham

  Block, Two, People

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• The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

  Boris Johnson

  People, Looks, Might

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

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

  Liam Fox

  People, Promise, Blair

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