Petition N. H. S. FINANCES - No compensation . Adequate insurance for medical staff . % success rate of operations . No free suscriptions .

As the NHS is public funded it makes no sense to sue ourselves, so the Goverment should ban this practice & ensure Medican Staff carry sufficient insurance, in line with their expertise . All medical procedures carry degrees of risk, the Ministry of Health should ensure that all patients are made aware of the % risk involved prior to any operation or treatment & all hospitals display such percentages, both national & local so that comparisons can be made . As the number of people eligable for free prescriptions increase each year & people are living longer, the prospect of free medical treatment for life is becoming very expensive - when the NHS bill was debated in 1948, it was thought that as people got healthier they would use the NHS less . The Goverment should institute a charge - I propose a £1 per prescription page - on those people on free prescriptions at the present, there to be no exceptions, other than NHS hospital inmates.