@alreadytaken
The system worked fine when it was properly funded and had less government interference. Then the Tories decided to introduce daft "reforms" and deliberately run the NHS into the ground.
We dont need a new system, we need a change of government.
No, it really didn't. And it wasn't the Tories who started the daft reforms. Blair/Brown did a lot of damage in the noughties as they embraced and developed the artificial "internal market" in the NHS and the crazy GP contract changes. Despite Labour trebling the NHS spending, it was still a basketcase organisation.
I had a lot of dealings with it in the late 00's with my mother and father in law, different hospitals. The lack of organisation was ridiculous. FIL had been waiting months for a cancer operation, was prepped on the morning, and waited. By mid afternoon, the nurses did some ringing around to be told the cancer surgeon was on a course that week, planned for weeks in advance, but no one had thought to cancel the operation, despite the "admins" knowing he wasn't going to be there! Same with my mother, her "care" was a complete fiasco, she had an appointment at Manchester Christies for radiotherapy, turned up on time, only to be told it had been cancelled the week before - the cancellation letter came through her letterbox a couple of days later, postmarked the date of her cancelled treatment. Those are just a couple of incidents - there were many, many more, and that was cancer treatment which should take priority, but staff just didn't seem to care, just blaming "the system" etc.
So, no, it's been a basketcase for longer than the last decade of Tories. It was a basketcase during Labour's years of throwing money at it.