We are also 'decent and hardworking'- and work in the NHS (nasty overblown state machine swallowing up all those hard earned taxes....).
Frankly I think if the Tories get in we can both kiss our incomes goodbye!
Whilst I am 'front line' thus might seem more indispensible, what will actually happen is this:
Services like mine will be contracted out. Private companies, many if not most headed by Tory mates and contributors, if not ex-Tory MPs themselves will get those contracts. We will be sacked then offered our jobs back with pay cuts. Many NHS workers will take the opportunity to retire. The shortfall in health care workers will be, as always, made up by less qualified, cheaper workers from less developed nations, depriving their home countries of their 'expertise' and lowering the standard you will get as a patient. You may not even notice this. OK, the 'scan' you had may have been inappropriate or of poor quality, but you won't be recalled. As far as you're concerned, you got the scan and the NHS is the best public health service in the world, isn't it?? The doctor's report will note that the scan had been performed, which will cover all parties in court if at some later stage it is asked WHY 'x' was missed.
Right now you may have had a MRI or CT scan carried out in the back of a truck. Your request will have been vetted for difficulty- too hard and the Latvian (for example) staff manning that truck will send it back to the NHS hospital where NHS trained radiographers will perform it competently, because there are still proper NHS facilities to pick up the hard stuff.
The private companies will be unable to fulfil the contract they've been paid to do, like has happened with the railways, for instance. They will go to the government who will allow them leeway like extended waiting lists, recruiting ever less qualified staff, lowering 'ridiculously high' safety standards etc. Eventually it will go tits up, there will be an enquiry, the CEO of that private company will resign. With a £2 million pension pot.
So be careful if you believe 'The NHS will be safe in my hands'. Ask 'Exactly what do you mean by 'safe'?'
Finally, before decrying the amount of clipboard carriers in the NHS, for example, they're there because you demand 100% accountability. Nothing can be said to have happened unless there is a record of that, so every action a care worker carries out then has to be documented. This is for 2 reasons: to analyse what we do and how to see if we can do it better/cheaper/faster, AND to provide documentation for both 'sides' to pull on in court. Simple.