Scud your description of the military secondry care couldn't be further from the truth. The MDHU's are basically NHS wards manned by military staff. You get very few soldiers/sailors/airmen through because the NHS control the beds and given the choice between canceling military patients with no come back or NHS patients and having to incur penalties then our personnel loose out. The defence medical services are now having to spend a fortune puting service personel through BUPA etc and pay for bednights in MDHU's that we don't get.
The NHS needs a major overhaul and definitly some major investigations into where large ammounts of the money is going.
I would sugest that the NHS has sufficient funding but its management is apalling.
The UK is falling into the European belief that there is no need to spend on defence as the USA will always bail us out. Is there is less money about to spend on defence has the GDP of the country fallen that much. What is needed is a Prudent government who won't allow the waste we see every day in the public services.