‘It’s not been the same since covid’: Londoners on NHS

Londoners speak on the NHS.

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00:00Let me put it this way. Ever since we went through Covid, things have changed.

00:07We're no longer at a stage where you could depend on the NHS.

00:13You have a heart attack, it's 50-50. It depends on your postcode.

00:16My general experience of the National Health Service has been good.

00:22I can't really fault it. My general experience has been good. I know

00:26for people who are in need of an operation, there's long waiting lists and their experience

00:32is very different and it might be specific to a particular operation or on a specific part of the

00:36body. The ideal that was the NHS in the 60s has now been diluted. More and more people are into

00:45private healthcare and the private healthcare is what the NHS was in the 60s. So really and truly

00:51the government needs to sort it out because there's a lot of people who put money into it,

00:55they've lost their lives for the NHS during Covid.