A happy birthday to ..........................KOTC

[KingoftheCocktails]

.........................................A happy 65th Birthday to the NHS

...........................................................KOTC

[scrobbitty]

Yes indeed but it's showing it's age a little bless it xx

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to scrobbitty]

I am hoping it is being rejuvenated into something we all want

[scrobbitty in reply to KingoftheCocktails]

Didn't Mr Bevan say that the Health Service would be there for as long as the people fought for it? Well said.

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to scrobbitty]

And that is what we must do

[Is4bell4]

I agree, no one should give the NHS a hard time, the Government yes.

Those who abuse the system yes.

I can thank them for my life at the tender age of six when a car hit me off my bike and smashed my skull, motorways were not available then, the M4 not built, but the old ambulance got me to Frechay Hospital . . I will never ever give them a hard time. thanks to them I am still here . . and now to help with further problems.

xx Ros xx

[Pepsicoley in reply to Is4bell4]

I too owe my life to the NHS which came into being in the year I was born (1948).

In 1952 my appendix ruptured. If it had not been for Mr James Black (a surgeon who later got the Nobel Prize) I would be dead - six feet under. I have to admit that he did not receive the Nobel price for the surgery he performed on me.

Queen Elizabeth II was crowned whilst I was in hospital - I remember leaving hospital with a tin with Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh on it. The NHS and antiboitics saved my life.

This year the NHS is 65 years old as am I. I wish the NHS (and me) a long and happy life.

If it were not for the NHS I would be DEAD!!!!

Annec

xxxxx

[peege in reply to Pepsicoley]

Do you still have the tin?

[Pepsicoley in reply to peege]

No Peeg

I don't remember what happened to it.

Annec

xxxxx

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Pepsicoley]

That's a shame.

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to peege]

Traded in for scrap metal?

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Pepsicoley]

May you have many more years ahead of you thanks to the NHS

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Is4bell4]

They have done me proud over the years

[Is4bell4]

((Annie))

[Hidden]

Happy birthday NHS we do moan about it at times but the truth is we would all be lost without it would'nt we So I am raising a glass (fizzy water ) to the good old life saver.

julie xxx

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Hidden]

Cheers from me as well

[O2Trees]

Great to read your stories.

Before the NHS, families used to have to choose which members they could afford to pay for to see the doctor. We take so much for granted now.

We have having a Keep Our NHS Public benefit tonight at our local Labour Club to celebrate its 65th.

Happy Birthday NHS!!

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to O2Trees]

Enjoy your evening

[O2Trees in reply to KingoftheCocktails]

Cheers m'dear!

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to O2Trees]

Al'right me beauty

[Hidden]

Happy Birthday NHS ... okay, so where's the party getting held? ...

Sandra x x x

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

You can always use my place you provide the booze I'll provide canapés and petrifies, sticky ribs, drummers and thighs, salmon and smoked trout, etc but someone will have to being a cake cos' i cant bake

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Oh! Nearly forgot cucumber butties without the crusts,

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Whayhay!!! Party Time

Sandra x x x

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Everyones invited,and if I'm allowed can i have kkk the cat as a bouncer pls

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

If KKK is there, then I'm sending my apologies .... That is a mean cat!!!!

Sandra x x x

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Just what you need to keep the party goers in line,

give it a bit of salmon

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Hidden]

You knew nobody would come if KKK was in attendance

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Hidden]

Apologies accepted, he didn't really want to do the party at his place,methinks!

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Hidden]

Not coming if KKK is coming. I can't abide violence

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Hidden]

Is the Vicar coming for butties?

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Hidden]

What day & time

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Hidden]

We all promised to keep it a secret!

[scrobbitty in reply to KingoftheCocktails]

It's okay, KKK is on the naughty step as I type, rotten murdering little fluff bag that he is.

[Hidden]

Happy Birthday for yesterday

Yesterday was the 65th Birthday of the NHS; over a million people were at work in the most talked about, envied and successful health system in the world.

Over seventy percent of the work force is female. Here are over 100 different volunteering roles in a hospital; meet and greet to hospital radio. Volunteers, where would we be without them?

The customers? Well:

* Across the NHS more than 1.5 million patients and their families will be in contact every day.

* Approximately 170,000 people (the same number who attended the Glastonbury music festival) go for an eyesight test each week.

* Our NHS will help deliver around 16,000 babies at home. This is enough children to fill the Royal Albert Hall three times over.

* Each month, 23 million people (more than three times the population of London) visit their GP surgery or practice nurse.

* In a typical week, 1.4 million people will receive help in their home from the NHS.

* Ambulance services will answer five, 999 calls every minute of every day.

* In a year District Nurses will call on the equivalent of the populations of Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta and Iceland - combined!

* Full-time GPs treat over 255 patients a week.

* NHS chiropodists inspect more than 150,000 pairs of feet every week. That's about half the British Army.

And we have a lot to be proud of:

* The oldest person in the world to have a hip replacement was a 101-year-old lady who was treated at Good Hope Hospital in the West Midlands. More than 90,000 hip replacement operations are carried out every year.

* When 13-year-old Sylvia Diggery was admitted to a Manchester hospital with a liver condition in 1948, she became the first patient to be treated by the NHS.

* Britain's first sextuplets were born to Sheila Thorn at Birmingham Maternity Hospital in 1968.

* Louise Joy Brown, born in Oldham on July 25 1978, was the world's first test-tube baby.

* The first heart transplant in the UK took place on May 3rd, 1968 at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone, London. By December 2007, over 5,000 heart transplants had been carried out in the UK.

The upshot; men and women live about 12 years longer than they did before the creation of the NHS in 1948.

Happy Birthday and have a great weekend!

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Hidden]

You are a mind of information. Thank you

[Hidden]

I owe a lot to the NHS over the years. First of all, it gave me my nursing degree which I fear is hopelessly out of date. So many changes. It has looked after various members of my family, and seen me through many ailments, serious or minor. It brought my two children into the world.

Currently, it has my husband under its wing, seeing him through his chemo.

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Hidden]

We all use the NHS in one way or another during our lifetimes. We would be at a loss without the NHS

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

And, yes, if it wasn't for the NHS, I wouldn't met my husband

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to Hidden]

See how lucky you have been

[chellshock]

Happy birthday for yesterday NHS.

the NHS is amazing without it I don't know where I would be. It is like an old friend always there when you need it

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to chellshock]

The NHS provides a great comfort to people

[thatcham1939]

what would we do without the N.H.S. I have had good service from them, as pepsicoley saids it ages us.

many of us would not here today

so good work and HAPPY BIRTHDAY NHS

jan

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to thatcham1939]

We would be lost without the NHS

[warwickstag]

The best gift ever provided by a Labour Government for its citizens, free at the point of use. No politician ever did so much as Nye Bevan for us.

Now sadly, it is slowly being dismantled and privatised by a couldn't care less government who neither use it nor care for it as it deflects from their raison d'etre of making money for the rich and powerful. Only this week I was startled but not really surprised to read that the whole kidney dialysis service is now privately run. Read 'em and weep.

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to warwickstag]

There might be change, but we must all do what ever we can to improve the way forward.I belong to many aspects of the Clinical Commissioning Groups as I have reported on many times and not everything is bad. We have to live with what is happening with NHS England etc and strive to give out input to make it successful. Look to the future and help the NHS in whatever manner you can, make your voice heard from your grass root Patient Participation Group upwards