CONGRATUALTIONS to the Daily Echo for printing the truth about the NHS in comparison with the dishonest rubbish from Britain's tabloid press who have their own hidden agenda and are controlled by vested interest, particularly the disgusting Daily Mail and Daily Express.

From my experience of the NHS in Southampton, as well as other parts of the country, it has improved beyond all recognition in the last ten years. The service is now excellent.

After all the Tory cuts I thought the NHS was irrepairable but Blair, for all his faults, has done wonders with this national treasure.

Of course, it has problems and it always will have but they are being dealt with. I, for one, do not want to go back to the obscene waiting lists under the Tories, it terrifies me, as an essential user of the NHS that in the next election it seems the Tories will get their destructive hands on it again.

Once again a massive congratulations to Southampton hospitals and all who dedicate themselves to it and worked so hard to get waiting lists down and to the Daily Echo for daring to print the truth.

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