This is wonderful in comparison with my experience as a child, when my hard up parents had to pay for treatment. I was once in an NHS clinic where patients included an unemployed labourer, the wife of a peer of the realm, and a prosperous businessman. That's what's good about the NHS the equity. Almost alone it has, despite Thatcherism, treated on need alone.
Treatments are as good as anywhere in the world.
For 20 years this has been abused by their being increasingly asked to work on good will rather than fair reward. The people who work for the NHS will always be the best thing about it. After 50 years of incredible scientific and medical advance, what still matters to patients is that one to one contact with a health professional they trust. It seems ridiculous that in 1998 we can successfully transplant major organs, but we cannot give patients a matching pair of pyjamas with buttons. Yet too many of the well heeled who don't need it as much as the majority regard it as a merely political object.