The real shame of it from the loss of real DMS, aside from the obvious loss to the Services, is the very high standards of care the military hospitals had. They set the standard that the NHS should have met, but didn't and from which there has been further decline. The old mil hospitals also provided a valuable boost to the capacity of local civilian services.
My wife, a highly experienced specialist A&E nurse in the NHS at the time, was astonished when she visited Wroughton, where I had major surgery as I was leaving the RAF. "This is what a hospital is meant to look like and how it's meant to work". It was clean, orderly and structured.
The only way now to get the standard of care that was available is to pay private.