'Thank you will never be enough': Your stories as NHS marks 70th anniversary
Wednesday 4 July 2018 17:21, UK
The NHS is turning 70 this week and Sky News has been asking you to share your stories.
From live-saving treatment for family members, to finding love on the job, it is clear that our health service has had a huge impact on lives up and down the country.
Below, you can tap on each picture to unveil a positive memory of time spent with the NHS.
Other glowing appraisals of NHS treatment come from Tarun Sundersingh, who wrote for Sky News about how staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital have helped him make the most out of life.
Another grateful patient, Tony Acres, wrote of his lifetime of benefit from the NHS.
Sky News has also heard from staff keen to express their pride at working in the health service.
But with millions of patients being admitted to hospitals across the UK each year, it is inevitable that some will endure less favourable experiences.
Among the stories shared with Sky News over the past week are some which speak to the occasions when the pressure on the NHS tells.
Some of them are featured below:
I鈥檇 like to say the NHS鈥檚 70th anniversary is something worth celebrating, but when it takes 18 days to get a routine appointment, or 11 days to get a doctor capable of doing what needs doing (a bicep injection), you really have to question how far we have come.
A massive amount of incompetence.
The NHS should not be used as a political football. It is poorly managed, wasteful and very inefficient in parts. Good staff are fed up that they cannot always give service people deserve.
I am still so traumatised after several inpatient stays that we are now paying to go private. The 'angel' nurses we hear about do exist - but only in tiny numbers. The rest were uncaring, preferring to chat than to work, dirty wards, mistakes by doctors.
I've worked at Southend Hospital for 14 years, I've never known such a crisis around beds and shortage of clinical trained staff.
My story about the NHS. Been failed at every almost every turn. Had to fight tooth and nail for effective treatment. Was lied to repeatedly by a consultant and the complaints procedure was a whitewash. Still battling today, but it鈥檚 soul destroying.
The NHS is a 1947 model. It is no longer fit for purpose.聽Its condition is incurable - it needs to be put out of its misery.聽The politicians and members of the public who insist on keeping it alive are acting like a virus.
On the eve of the 70th anniversary, Sky News will address the question as to whether the NHS is still fit for purpose during a special hour-long programme hosted by Dermot Munaghan.
NHS: Fit For the Future? will air from 7pm on Wednesday night, live from Guy's Hospital in central London.