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@ David Crawford Commented on: 23 February 2017 11:41 GMT:

"... I was admitted at 8.00 p m on a Sunday and there were two surgeons, two anaesthetists and two nurses solely dedicated to my case and all there by midnight when they operated. All went well and i was out seven days later. All still seems to be well.

It was suggested to me that I make a claim against the NHS. But why? I was sorted out at no extra cost to me. A week in a German hospital feeling a bit sore interrupted my holiday, but what the heck.

These lawyers would have been on my case like vultures. Chching! Their adverts are everywhere. (The Dental Practice inserts a quarter page ad. in The Gazette every other week soliciting clients to sue their dentists!) ..."

I could not agree more with your sentiments. I had bleeding twice and readmission once over throat work by ENT (the first time I was kept on a trolley and forgotten about for about four hours on an afternoon after surgery, the second time real problems and toxic reaction (that they knew well about from the first experience)). Again like you I could have moaned and whinged and like a leech taken money from the NHS. So what then? My father had a bowel op himself, that not being available on the NHS?

I do blame though, the AJA 2000 and the abolition of the rules against Maintenance and Champerty. A terrible thing to do, obviously going to cause mayhem on claims and all sorts of dodgy people funding litigation (outside of the Solicitors Profession), and such principle abolished by unintelligent MP's egged on by the Insurance 'Industry' and PI 'Industry'.