The criticism comes ahead of the 75th birthday of the health service.
When asked what the public want from the NHS, Dr Collins said: "We would like to know what is a predictable level of health care provision that we can expect to have with the NHS."Can we rely on that ambulance delivering us to an accident and emergency for life saving treatment?"When you get the service it will probably be good and satisfactory.
His sons offered to pay £13,000 to allow him to go private and be seen within a matter of weeks, but he said it goes against everything he believes in. He said he feels cheated by the system after paying taxes for decades, and said he could get the same NHS consultant to operate in about two months if he paid privately.
Dr Collins said while the NHS should celebrate its ability to train some of the best medics in the world, the service was "squandering that expertise" due to "doctors leaving the UK in droves". Prof Marcus Longley, a health economist and former chairman of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, said a lot had changed for the NHS since it celebrated its 70-year anniversary.
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