Hi Spacegeek

I'm not offended by your post and I'm not picking a fight, your opinion is valid, welcome and in essence I agree, but the trouble is the system is broken.

Who was accountable when two people in my town were refused treatment and then went on to kill themsleves? No-one. The coroner quite clearly identified the failure of the system to help them, but nothing changed.

My rant was because I needed a service (I probably still do), I didn't get one despite having paid taxes and NI all my adult life. I would fully endorse a properly run NHS but, just as it is immoral for services to be available only to those who can afford them, it is immoral to take money off hard working people and then refuse them a service. All I want is a fair bite of the cherry. Like I said before if I lived 10 miles down the road, I'd get help.