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I don't agree one bit at all that under Labour the NHS got worse, they invested in it and got more Nurses employed again too, wards that had been closed due to undermanning were again in use and the NHS improved considerably from the near crippled state it was brought to by 1997 by the Govt of the 80s and early 90s.
John Major did try to turn things around a bit but by 1997, the NHS was in a shocking state.

For instance, in the 80s and 90s,I have been told by people who had this done, that a cataract operation took from diagnosis almost 6 months or more before it was done,for an elderly person with bad cataracts that is a long time to have to suffer that problem.

However by 2002 the time of waiting for that operation was down to under 3 months max on average.
Of course there are problems at times, there will always be with an organisation as massive as the NHS and so many hospitals which is why it needs to stop being used by Politicians like a football,kicked around all different ways by whichever is in power.

I have to also say, I personally have never come across bins not being emptied on wards and rooms,certainly not in the hospitals I go to and I visit hospitals a lot with a friend of mine who is regularly in hospital.

I will though never accept that Labour ruined the NHS, They have absolutely no reason to want it harmed and Andy Burnham was in my view a really good Health secretary.
It is the massive under investement of the Conservatives through the 80s and the early 90s that near ruined the NHS and from all I have seen from this Coalition, they are heading down that road again.

I will not trust David Cameron now or these present leading Conservatives with the NHS. I hoped that David Cameron would keep his word not to do any full reform of it, well, he lied as to that and he will lie again likely as to his intentions as to the NHS at the next election too.

I only hope that if Labour win the election in 2015, I won't end up being disappointed again with politicians and that Andy Burnham will in fact, if health secretary, repeal as much as he can of this Govts disastrous reforms that very few indeed in the NHS even understand never mind even want at all.