@ZonderRishi - dh is doing really well given that not one week ago he was on the operating table having his hip replaced (said in true Frasier melodramatic tones 
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He had his dressing changing yesterday: the scar is incredible - long but incredibly neat. It just looks like someone has drawn a line with a sharpie down his legs. No evidence of stitches and it is already healing well 
The nurse said that the Jubilee are brilliant at doing all the stitches as internal ones that will dissolve and not leave scarring.
The only problem we've had so far has been getting hold of more Oxycodone as he's been in so much pain understandably that he was at risk of running out. But as a controlled drug, it's not readily available in tablet or capsule form, which is apparently the correct form for post-operative pain relief (in "olden" times, he'd still have been in hospital).
Bringing it back on topic, I can't fault his experience of the NHS: from the pre-op care, the gold care standard of the op itself (both the consultant and the other care givers), the GP practice getting me the script (and then amending it at 5.20 to what the pharmacy could dispense) to the district nurses who changed his dressing. But there again, we're in Scotland where by all accounts things - although by no means perfect, are nowhere near as bad as in England 
(viz: he has a telephone appointment on Monday with his GP, who will see him in person if he thinks he needs to - and the only reason he didn't get the appointment last week was that "our" GP was on holiday for a week shouldn't be allowed )